But an interesting source and one that makes more sense the more one thinks about it – check out the trailer for Rebel Without a Cause, which I just watched this week – tell me you don’t hear “It Ain’t Me Babe” in the main theme, try not to hear it and finish it with, “to open each and every door…”

We saw her play with the Chicago Symphony a couple years back and though it was thoroughly impressive, the strings seemed muted. Maybe it is just me wanted to see a woman being overpowered by my own Wagnerian dreams, but perhaps there is a personality con job going on here. The new songs she played, which I can only assume will be on this new record, seemed to reach back more to an Appalachian (well maybe Rocky Mountain) folk – but this aint John Denver.  They maybe bordered on becoming too far gone down the path of long epic ballading – but maybe that’s because I’ve yet to draw my own life’s breath from these new stories – for length and the absence of brevity seems that it could be an issue for Have One on Me. I’ve always assumed it was correct that people were made to digest music as an artistic experience in 20 to 30 minute chunks.

I’m simply trying to say this is fascinating listening here, and this is from somebody who found The Milk-Eyed Mender unlistenable. J Newsom is far above us all, which is sort of unfair to say because she is clearly playing a different game, and what the hell, a triple-LP for $25 – I’ve already pre-ordered mine.

http://twitter.com/Odawas

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Odawas/222742947316?ref=nf

as if this wasn’t enough there are two good-sounding live recordings up at Wolfgang’s Vault of our Noise Pop performance…

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/odawas/

an interview with Brad Rose (aka the North Sea) for Foxy Digitalis

Foxy D. Interview

and a podcast with the charming fellows at The Bay Bridged

Bay Bridged Podcast

The long lost Vitamin City, the first Odawas record – is available for full download on the music page, check it here:

This comes about after we have pressed a special edition for live shows, that includes new artwork, a new ambient bonus track and hand numbered limited edition styling…all for 5 bucks. We have a few left so order them if you want something to hold in your hand…buy it