Joanna Newsom: End of the Road festival, Wiltshire
Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2016
THERE AREN'T MANY contemporary musicians I'd stand in the pissing Wiltshire rain at summer's end to hear: I'm too ancient to care too much about Next Big Things (or most of the last ones, for that matter). So much sounds so samey, so patched together from old building blocks.
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