Have One on Me
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Have One On Me is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter
Joanna Newsom
, released on February 23, 2010 via Drag City
as the official follow up to the harpist's highly acclaimed second studio release, 2006's Ys
. It is a triple album produced by herself and mixed by long-time collaborators Jim O'Rourke
and Noah Georgeson
, with the accompanying arrangements by Ryan Francesconi.
Have One On Me is considered to be Newsom's most accessible work by critics - with its lyrics being described as more straightforward than those of previous releases, though still cryptic. The albums also show a further progression of elements of her sound such as the orchestral accompaniment and the arrangements - with the inclusion of diverse instruments like the tambura
, the harpsichord
and the kaval
. The production also flirts with genres such as jazz
and blues
in some of the tracks, while adding drums and the electric guitar
in others. The album is also her first since The Milk-Eyed Mender
to include songs played on the piano instead of the harp. Because of health problems, Newsom's voice was damaged during the sessions consequently affecting the overall recording process and forcing the harpist to change her singing manners.
The title of the album and its official release date were officially announced on January 12, 2010, through a comic strip. Otherwise, information about Have One On Me surfaced slowly, mostly being kept secret by the press and Drag City. Advance copies of the album were only sent to music critics a few weeks before its release in an attempt to prevent a leak, since Newsom's previous leaked months ahead of its original release date after it was left unprotected on servers belonging to music review website Pitchfork Media
. It ultimately leaked on February 18, 2010.
Have One On Me received largely positive reviews by music critics upon its release earning Joanna Newsom several accolades and favorable comparisons to previous singer-songwriters such as Joni Mitchell
, Laura Nyro
, Rickie Lee Jones
and Kate Bush
. In contrast, like her previous releases before it, the album has received its share of criticism. The majority of them were made towards its triple disc format - described by some critics as overly ambitious - and some of its tracks' lengths.
Commercially the album earned Newsom her best chart positions yet and fared well. In the U.S. Have One On Me debuted and peaked at number 75 on the Billboard 200
and number 16 on the Top Digital Albums, selling more than 7,000 copies in its first week. It also spent four consecutive weeks atop of the Folk Albums chart and peaked inside the top 10 of the Independent Albums chart. In the UK
it peaked at number 28, becoming her second album to reach the top 50. Additionally, Have One On Me is her first chart appearance in Canada
.
, under the pseudonym The Beatles's. Those in attendance reported that about one-third of her new material was played primarily on piano, with a backing arrangement of banjo, violin, guitar and drums. Plans of recording an album appeared earlier that year with the help of Francesconi and Neal Morgan, who did the percussion on the album. According to an interview made by TIME
, the three of them crawled through the songs bar by bar, talking about each of their "meaning, mood and thematic stuff". During the recording of the album, especially when she went to lay the basic vocal tracks, it was discovered that she had lost her voice. This put a freeze on making the record, although she continued to record all of the piano and the harp. By the end of the year she had since completed the album and mastered it in Tokyo.
website where it contained a link leading to a short comic strip titled "Joanna Newsom 'Have One On Me'" with a date of February 23, 2010. It was later confirmed by Spunk, Newsom's Australian label, that the title and date represented the title and release date of Newsom's upcoming album. The album was reportedly to be released in Australia on February 19, 2010, but it was later postponed to February 22. A week later ClashMusic
reported that Newsom's upcoming album would contain the four following tracks: "Jack Rabbits", "Ribbon Bows", "Autumn" and "In California". Newsom also described the album as a "cross between her last two" On January 22 of that same month, less than three days after the interview, ClashMusic
removed the article and the interview, citing that "the information given was not part of any exclusive interview with, or authorized, by Joanna Newsom and that the words expressed were solely those of the writer." Also, according to the magazine, "none of the quotes should be credited to Ms. Newsom". They concluded by apologizing to "Ms. Newsom and her record company for any distress caused by the article." That same day, NME
had reported that the album would contain three discs.
On January 26, the album was made available for pre-order. Pitchfork Media
also reported that Drag City
revealed the album cover, which the webzine described as an "utilitarian cover art, a far cry from the fancy portrait that adorned Ys
". It was also confirmed that Have One On Me would be a triple album. At last it was reported that Have One On Me would be released worldwide from February 23, including Australia
. Less than a week later, Drag City revealed a new album cover, confirming rumors that the black one released before containing only Joanna's name and the album title was only provisory and not the final design. Pitchfork Media
described it as a "picture of Ms. Newsom lounging amidst too many antiques and animal prints. She looks comfortable."
On February 8, Japan
ese website Metropolis reported that Have One On Me would be released in Japan
on March 4. Also according to the article although "details and samples of the new album have been kept closely under wraps", there was "an invite-only listening party for press last week" that "revealed Have One On Me to be Newsom’s magnum opus".
Advance copies were not sent to critics in an effort to avoid a leak of the album according to Uncut
; Newsom's previous album, Ys was leaked two months before its original release when it was left unprotected on servers belonging to music review website Pitchfork Media
; However, Have One On Me leaked and became available on P2P
networks and BitTorrent on February 18, just days before its official release date.
streamed three tracks, starting January 26 and ending on February 15, with each one of them being streamed during seven days. "'81" was the first to be streamed at the label's website and the resulting wave of web traffic overloaded their website. On February 2, the label streamed another new track via its website, "Good Intentions Paving Company". Pitchfork Media
awarded the song a grade of 9 out of 10, and it received the "Best New Music" tag. The reviewer compared Newsom favorably to Rickie Lee Jones
and suggested that the song "may be the most humanizing song we've heard from Newsom", aside calling it a "rare thing, then-- an unapologetic love song that feels, you know, new.". On February 9, the nine-minute "Kingfisher" became the last one released. Aside this and touring in support of the album, Joanna Newsom performed "Soft as Chalk" at Jimmy Fallon
's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
on March 6, 2010. Newsom performed "81" and "Jackrabbits" on Later with Jools Holland
on May 4, 2010. Newsom also appeared on the cover of Under the Radar
magazine for its May 2010 issue and in the August 2010 issue of Mojo Magazine. On August 12, Newsom performed "You and Me, Bess" and "81" on Jimmy Kimmel Live
. The performance of "You and Me, Bess" was filmed in black-and-white
. In support of the album, she also performed in festivals such as the Green Man Festival
and All Tomorrow Parties
, the latter curated by Matt Groening
also earned her a Simpsons cartoon by the cartoonist himself. During the tour, Newsom alongside Fleet Foxes
's Robin Pecknold
performed a cover of Kid Rock
's Picture to critical acclaim. Also, her song "On a Good Day" was covered by Pecknold and by punk-rock icon Billy Bragg
for The Voice Project
. Joanna Newsom also performed this song, incorporating a new instrumental section, in December of the same year on the The Late Show with David Letterman.
and the iTunes in the U.S.. As a consequence, the album debuted and peaked at number 16 on the Top Digital Albums chart and at number 7 on the Independent Albums chart. On the Billboard 200
it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the Folk Albums, making Have One On Me her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard
chart. A week later it fell to number 104 at the first and stayed another week at the top of the latter, becoming, so far, her most successful chart performance. On its third week, the album fell to number 140, though it continued to top the Folk albums chart. Have One On Me spent a total of four weeks inside the Billboard 200 and it charted inside of the top 40 and the top 5 of the Independent albums and Folk albums charts, respectively for a few more weeks. By the end of the year it had sold more than 50,000 copies in the U.S. alone. The album also became her first chart appearance in Canada
, debuting and peaking at number 80.
In Europe
, the album also became Newsom's highest chart appearance to date in the majority of the territories, where it peaked at number 46 on the continent's overall chart.
In the UK
it debuted and peaked at number 28, her second album to chart inside the top 50, since Ys
peaked at number 41 back in 2006. In Ireland
, it debuted and peaked at number 24, falling to number 32 a week after its debut. The album peaked inside the top 20 of the Norwegian Album Charts
, and reached the top 100 of others such as the Swiss's, Netherlands
's and the Belgium
's albums chart. The album charted lower than its predecessor in France
, where it debuted and peaked at number 171.
, indicating "Universal Acclaim".Based upon 35 reviews according to Metacritic
Most of the reviews made note of the sprawling nature of, and the varied styles present in the album, and that whilst a longer album than Ys
the orchestral arrangements are scaled-back and less ornate in comparison to Van Dyke Parks
' arrangements on that album. The Observer
noted that just as Ys was a considerately more ambitious album than The Milk-Eyed Mender
, Have One On Me represented a "correspondingly Knievel
-like vault". The Wire
magazine as well as several other reviews noted the expansion of Newsom's musical palette to include instruments such as tambura
and kaval
, whilst other critics including Pitchfork Media
drew comparison to Joni Mitchell
's 1970s material. They also made note of the maturing of Newsom's voice, particularly Ann Powers' review in the Los Angeles Times
and Simon Vozick-Levinson in Entertainment Weekly
.
Anthony Carew of About.com
gave the album 5 stars calling Have One On Me "colossal" and "all of the tremors and squeaks of her original screech have been smoothed out, her polished-stone voice rolling syllables into honeyed slurs", aside concluding that "armed with more beautiful singing, more rich orchestration, and more open emotion, there's not a difficult note on here; it's two hours amounting to a staggering portrait of an artist defiantly staking her claim as one of the greatest of the 21st century." Philip Cosores of Consequence of Sound
also gave the album a perfect score claiming that "records like Have One On Me are why [perfect scores] exist". The reviewer also wrote favorably about its production and songwriting referring to them as "emotional moments, moments you can’t help but imagine being moved to tears, even if you are not actually moved to do so". John Mulvey of Uncut
gone even further writing that Have One On Me "sounds very much like a second masterpiece: a different kind of epic to Ys
, and one with enough hooks and charms to ensnare at least a few Newsom agnostics" whist Louis Pattison of BBC
felt that "as an album, it is huge, sometimes overwhelming – but such is the strength and individuality of Newsom’s vision, it seems almost inconceivable she could produce anything unremarkable". The New York Times
s Jon Pareles pointed that she "has discovered how to open up her music: to let it whisper and swell, to be swept into the purely musical pleasures of an ingenious arrangement or to let simplicity and silence speak for her." The Irish Times
gave the album 5 stars assuming that although "triple albums are a risk, Newsom pulls this off beautifully."
Allison Stewart of The Washington Post
called Have One On Me "her magnum opus, a three-disc set being likened to a freak-folk Sandinista!
, though it feels more like a musical Ulysses
." musicOMH
s Darren Harvey awarded the album 5 stars recognized that it is "winding, long-winded, densely poetic, and often challenging", but "never tedious or self-indulgent", an opinion also shared by Dan Cairns of The Times
. James Reed of the Boston Globe wrote favorably about its production stating that "she could have easily overstuffed these songs, like the dizzying album cover, but instead Newsom keeps a tight grip on the music’s dramatic arcs. Songs tend to open with a simple melody on harp or piano before plummeting into countless rabbit holes".
Mark Richardson of Pitchfork
gave the album 9.2 out of 10. He wrote that "The highlights are spread out evenly, and Newsom couldn't have sequenced the record any better," and, referring to lyrics from the opening track echoed in the closer, "it reinforces just how many threads she's weaved between those songs and how incredible it is to discover new things with every listen. Paste Magazines Jeff Vrabel referred to it as a "panoramic dreamworld" and wrote that "Have One On Me is packed with magic." Jim Scott of Under the Radar
awarded the album 9 out of 10 stating that Newsom "has never been one of those artists who leave the listener wanting more, knowing that there's more to give." To him "the massive amount of material contained in Have One On Me will take a long time to digest. Perhaps as long as it takes her to produce another album". Drowned In Sound
also gave the same rating and praised Newsom's vocals and lyrics, while the former being described as "winsome and technically much improved" and the latter being pointed as "one of her strongest points." To the reviewer the album is "for now, a stunning and ambitious piece of work; one for the ages". Sputnikmusic
rated the album 4½ stars out of 5 commenting that "it's been a long time since an album like this was released: an album that is intensely personal even if you can't relate to the lyrics, even if you've never been in love, even if you've never lost something, even if you've never really felt alive." To Chris Parkin of Yahoo!
Have One On Me is "nothing short of remarkable", while No Ripcord
awarded the album a full score, a second for Newsom, referring to it as "one of the finest albums of this, or any, year." Renowned Music critic Piero Scaruffi
affirmed that "exhausting and exhilarating, this album pushed Newsom to a higher orbit than any of her contemporary singer-songwriter"; Ultimately awarding the record an eight and a half out of ten rating.
Spin
s Andy Beta expressed that Newsom "gives what few artists can deliver: a self-contained world of warmth, crystalline detail, and intimacy that lies far beyond a Twitter feed." in his 4 star review. Q Magazine gave the same rating and shared a similar opinion commenting that "Have One On Me is a record so richly involving that it promises to throw up fresh delights weeks, or even months, down the line." NME
stated in its 8/10 review that "most bands don’t make that many great songs in their whole darned career." Simmy Richman of The Independent
described it as "a monumental work in more ways than one." Will Dean of The Guardian
pointed that "at two-hours-plus, it's a record that demands concentration to appreciate its splatterings of beauty. But pour yourself a glass and listen, because they don't make them like this too often." Will Hermes of Rolling Stone
awarded the album 3½ stars out of 5 praising the lyrics and believing that it "firmly establishes her as a singer-songwriter to be reckoned with", while the German
version of the same magazine gave Have One On Me 4½ stars and placed Newsom as the cover story of its march issue. Giving it 3½ stars, Heather Phares of Allmusic commented that "the first disc presents Newsom’s biggest departures", but that "the album’s cross between The Milk-Eyed Mender
and Ys
isn’t always greater than the sum of its parts". Andy Battaglia of The A.V. Club
gave it a B grade and wrote that "Have One On Me doesn’t hold out any clear organizational structure to cinch it all together. Or at least it hasn’t yet", while Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune
in his 2½ out of 4 stars review commented that "history tells us that most triple albums could’ve benefited from some pruning, and Have One On Me is no exception."
As with Newsom's other studio albums, Have One On Me has received criticism and mixed to negative reviews. Slant Magazine
s Matthew Cole rated it 2 stars out of 5. Cole said it was "remarkable how little narrative arc develops either within or between songs," and that most of the album plays out with "moments of inspired performance scattered haphazardly throughout tracks that just don't feel like they've been thought through." He went on to call the record "a strange, and strangely pretentious mess: an album pitted deep in the psychic world of stories that nonetheless can't figure out when it should begin, when it should end, or which parts are even worth the audience's attention." Matthew Fiander of PopMatters
gave the album 4 out of 10 points and described the songs as "formless", although he recognized that there were standout tracks, and some of them came at least close of others songs by Newsom such as Only Skin. He also expressed disappointment, commenting that "it’s too bad really, that Have One On Me is so overdone because there’s a decent album hidden somewhere in there. It’s an album the Newsom we saw in 2006 would have found, formed, and made shine". In contrast, Zach Schonfeld of the same website has been more positive towards the album while reviewing one of her concerts, describing it as "the closest Newsom will come to a Blood on the Tracks
— a confessional opus, straight from the gut."
and reported by other vehicles in February. All songs written by Joanna Newsom.
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...
, released on February 23, 2010 via Drag City
Drag City (record label)
Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...
as the official follow up to the harpist's highly acclaimed second studio release, 2006's Ys
Ys (album)
Ys is the second album by Joanna Newsom. It was released by Drag City on November 14, 2006 to widespread critical acclaim. The album was named after the city of Ys, which according to myth was built on the coast of Brittany and later swallowed by the ocean...
. It is a triple album produced by herself and mixed by long-time collaborators Jim O'Rourke
Jim O'Rourke (musician)
Jim O'Rourke is an Irish-American musician and record producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene...
and Noah Georgeson
Noah Georgeson
Noah Georgeson is a musician, producer, and solo recording artist. Georgeson's debut album Find Shelter was released through Plain Recordings on November 28, 2006. He is credited as having "written, scored, arranged, recorded, and produced" the entirety of Find Shelter, according to a press...
, with the accompanying arrangements by Ryan Francesconi.
Have One On Me is considered to be Newsom's most accessible work by critics - with its lyrics being described as more straightforward than those of previous releases, though still cryptic. The albums also show a further progression of elements of her sound such as the orchestral accompaniment and the arrangements - with the inclusion of diverse instruments like the tambura
Tambura
The tambura, tanpura, or tambora is a long-necked plucked lute . The body shape of the tambura somewhat resembles that of the sitar, but it has no frets – only the open strings are played to accompany other musicians...
, the harpsichord
Harpsichord
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
and the kaval
Kaval
The kaval is a chromatic end-blown flute traditionally played throughout Azerbaijan, Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, southern Serbia , northern Greece , Romania , and Armenia...
. The production also flirts with genres such as jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
and blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
in some of the tracks, while adding drums and the electric guitar
Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
in others. The album is also her first since The Milk-Eyed Mender
The Milk-Eyed Mender
The Milk-Eyed Mender is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom, released on March 23, 2004 on the Drag City label ....
to include songs played on the piano instead of the harp. Because of health problems, Newsom's voice was damaged during the sessions consequently affecting the overall recording process and forcing the harpist to change her singing manners.
The title of the album and its official release date were officially announced on January 12, 2010, through a comic strip. Otherwise, information about Have One On Me surfaced slowly, mostly being kept secret by the press and Drag City. Advance copies of the album were only sent to music critics a few weeks before its release in an attempt to prevent a leak, since Newsom's previous leaked months ahead of its original release date after it was left unprotected on servers belonging to music review website Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
. It ultimately leaked on February 18, 2010.
Have One On Me received largely positive reviews by music critics upon its release earning Joanna Newsom several accolades and favorable comparisons to previous singer-songwriters such as Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
, Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved considerable critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry, and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and The 5th...
, Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.-Childhood:...
and Kate Bush
Kate Bush
Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart...
. In contrast, like her previous releases before it, the album has received its share of criticism. The majority of them were made towards its triple disc format - described by some critics as overly ambitious - and some of its tracks' lengths.
Commercially the album earned Newsom her best chart positions yet and fared well. In the U.S. Have One On Me debuted and peaked at number 75 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
and number 16 on the Top Digital Albums, selling more than 7,000 copies in its first week. It also spent four consecutive weeks atop of the Folk Albums chart and peaked inside the top 10 of the Independent Albums chart. In the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
it peaked at number 28, becoming her second album to reach the top 50. Additionally, Have One On Me is her first chart appearance in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
Recording
On March 28, 2009, Newsom performed over two hours of new material at a "secret" concert at the Fernwood Resort in Big Sur, California with fellow Nevada City singer-songwriter Mariee SiouxMariee Sioux
Mariee Sioux is an American folk singer-songwriter. Her father Gary Sobonya is a mandolin player of Polish and Hungarian descent, and her mother Felicia is of Spanish, Paiute, and Indigenous Mexican descent.-Biography:...
, under the pseudonym The Beatles's. Those in attendance reported that about one-third of her new material was played primarily on piano, with a backing arrangement of banjo, violin, guitar and drums. Plans of recording an album appeared earlier that year with the help of Francesconi and Neal Morgan, who did the percussion on the album. According to an interview made by TIME
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, the three of them crawled through the songs bar by bar, talking about each of their "meaning, mood and thematic stuff". During the recording of the album, especially when she went to lay the basic vocal tracks, it was discovered that she had lost her voice. This put a freeze on making the record, although she continued to record all of the piano and the harp. By the end of the year she had since completed the album and mastered it in Tokyo.
Release
On January 12, 2010, an entry cryptically titled "@!?*(%$#!!" was posted on the Drag CityDrag City (record label)
Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...
website where it contained a link leading to a short comic strip titled "Joanna Newsom 'Have One On Me'" with a date of February 23, 2010. It was later confirmed by Spunk, Newsom's Australian label, that the title and date represented the title and release date of Newsom's upcoming album. The album was reportedly to be released in Australia on February 19, 2010, but it was later postponed to February 22. A week later ClashMusic
Clash (magazine)
Clash is a popular music and fashion magazine based in the United Kingdom. Its magazine title is published 12 times a year. It has a circulation of around 40,000....
reported that Newsom's upcoming album would contain the four following tracks: "Jack Rabbits", "Ribbon Bows", "Autumn" and "In California". Newsom also described the album as a "cross between her last two" On January 22 of that same month, less than three days after the interview, ClashMusic
Clash (magazine)
Clash is a popular music and fashion magazine based in the United Kingdom. Its magazine title is published 12 times a year. It has a circulation of around 40,000....
removed the article and the interview, citing that "the information given was not part of any exclusive interview with, or authorized, by Joanna Newsom and that the words expressed were solely those of the writer." Also, according to the magazine, "none of the quotes should be credited to Ms. Newsom". They concluded by apologizing to "Ms. Newsom and her record company for any distress caused by the article." That same day, NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
had reported that the album would contain three discs.
On January 26, the album was made available for pre-order. Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
also reported that Drag City
Drag City (record label)
Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...
revealed the album cover, which the webzine described as an "utilitarian cover art, a far cry from the fancy portrait that adorned Ys
Ys (album)
Ys is the second album by Joanna Newsom. It was released by Drag City on November 14, 2006 to widespread critical acclaim. The album was named after the city of Ys, which according to myth was built on the coast of Brittany and later swallowed by the ocean...
". It was also confirmed that Have One On Me would be a triple album. At last it was reported that Have One On Me would be released worldwide from February 23, including Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Less than a week later, Drag City revealed a new album cover, confirming rumors that the black one released before containing only Joanna's name and the album title was only provisory and not the final design. Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
described it as a "picture of Ms. Newsom lounging amidst too many antiques and animal prints. She looks comfortable."
On February 8, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese website Metropolis reported that Have One On Me would be released in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
on March 4. Also according to the article although "details and samples of the new album have been kept closely under wraps", there was "an invite-only listening party for press last week" that "revealed Have One On Me to be Newsom’s magnum opus".
Advance copies were not sent to critics in an effort to avoid a leak of the album according to Uncut
UNCUT (magazine)
Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, but also includes film and books sections...
; Newsom's previous album, Ys was leaked two months before its original release when it was left unprotected on servers belonging to music review website Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
; However, Have One On Me leaked and became available on P2P
Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...
networks and BitTorrent on February 18, just days before its official release date.
Promotion and Touring
To promote the album, Drag CityDrag City (record label)
Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...
streamed three tracks, starting January 26 and ending on February 15, with each one of them being streamed during seven days. "'81" was the first to be streamed at the label's website and the resulting wave of web traffic overloaded their website. On February 2, the label streamed another new track via its website, "Good Intentions Paving Company". Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
awarded the song a grade of 9 out of 10, and it received the "Best New Music" tag. The reviewer compared Newsom favorably to Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.-Childhood:...
and suggested that the song "may be the most humanizing song we've heard from Newsom", aside calling it a "rare thing, then-- an unapologetic love song that feels, you know, new.". On February 9, the nine-minute "Kingfisher" became the last one released. Aside this and touring in support of the album, Joanna Newsom performed "Soft as Chalk" at Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon
James Thomas "Jimmy" Fallon, Jr. is an American actor, comedian, singer, musician and television host. He currently hosts Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a late-night talk show that airs Monday through Friday on NBC...
's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jimmy Fallon on NBC. The show premiered on March 2, 2009, as the third incarnation of the Late Night franchise originated by David Letterman....
on March 6, 2010. Newsom performed "81" and "Jackrabbits" on Later with Jools Holland
Later with Jools Holland
Later... with Jools Holland is a contemporary British music television show hosted by Jools Holland. A spin-off of The Late Show, it has been running in short series since 1992 and is a part of BBC Two's late-night line-up, usually at around 11pm to 12 midnight...
on May 4, 2010. Newsom also appeared on the cover of Under the Radar
Under the Radar (magazine)
Under the Radar is an American magazine that bills itself as "The solution to music pollution" and features interviews with accompanying photo-shoots. Each issue includes opinion and commentary of the Indie music scene as well as reviews on books, DVDs and albums.Items are reviewed based on a...
magazine for its May 2010 issue and in the August 2010 issue of Mojo Magazine. On August 12, Newsom performed "You and Me, Bess" and "81" on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.The nightly hour-long show made its debut on January 26, 2003, following Super Bowl XXXVII. Jimmy Kimmel Live! is produced by Jackhole Productions in association with ABC Studios...
. The performance of "You and Me, Bess" was filmed in black-and-white
Black-and-white
Black-and-white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, is a term referring to a number of monochrome forms in visual arts.Black-and-white as a description is also something of a misnomer, for in addition to black and white, most of these media included varying shades of gray...
. In support of the album, she also performed in festivals such as the Green Man Festival
Green Man Festival
The Green Man Festival is an independent music festival held annually in the Brecon Beacons, Wales. It has evolved from a one-day, 300 capacity event in 2003, to a three-day festival with live music including psych, folk, indie, dance and Americana across five stages, as well as DJs playing...
and All Tomorrow Parties
All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)
All Tomorrow's Parties is a music festival which takes place at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset, England....
, the latter curated by Matt Groening
Matt Groening
Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama....
also earned her a Simpsons cartoon by the cartoonist himself. During the tour, Newsom alongside Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes are a folk rock band which formed in Seattle, Washington. They are signed to the Sub Pop and Bella Union record labels. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes...
's Robin Pecknold
Robin Pecknold
Robin Noel Pecknold is an American singer, guitarist and principal songwriter for the band Fleet Foxes.-Biography:He formed Fleet Foxes with guitarist and friend Skyler Skjelset while the two were at school...
performed a cover of Kid Rock
Kid Rock
Robert James "Bob" Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and rapper with five Grammy Awards nominations...
's Picture to critical acclaim. Also, her song "On a Good Day" was covered by Pecknold and by punk-rock icon Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
for The Voice Project
The Voice Project (charity)
The Voice Project The Voice Project is a multimedia music based non-profit initiative focused on aiding women’s groups in Uganda, Sudan, Democratic Republic Congo, and Central African Republic affected by violence from the Lord's Resistance Army in one of Africa's longest-running...
. Joanna Newsom also performed this song, incorporating a new instrumental section, in December of the same year on the The Late Show with David Letterman.
Commercial performance
In the week it was released, Have One On Me reached the top 10 of online music stores such as AmazonAmazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
and the iTunes in the U.S.. As a consequence, the album debuted and peaked at number 16 on the Top Digital Albums chart and at number 7 on the Independent Albums chart. On the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the Folk Albums, making Have One On Me her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
chart. A week later it fell to number 104 at the first and stayed another week at the top of the latter, becoming, so far, her most successful chart performance. On its third week, the album fell to number 140, though it continued to top the Folk albums chart. Have One On Me spent a total of four weeks inside the Billboard 200 and it charted inside of the top 40 and the top 5 of the Independent albums and Folk albums charts, respectively for a few more weeks. By the end of the year it had sold more than 50,000 copies in the U.S. alone. The album also became her first chart appearance in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, debuting and peaking at number 80.
In Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, the album also became Newsom's highest chart appearance to date in the majority of the territories, where it peaked at number 46 on the continent's overall chart.
In the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
it debuted and peaked at number 28, her second album to chart inside the top 50, since Ys
Ys (album)
Ys is the second album by Joanna Newsom. It was released by Drag City on November 14, 2006 to widespread critical acclaim. The album was named after the city of Ys, which according to myth was built on the coast of Brittany and later swallowed by the ocean...
peaked at number 41 back in 2006. In Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
, it debuted and peaked at number 24, falling to number 32 a week after its debut. The album peaked inside the top 20 of the Norwegian Album Charts
VG-lista
VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...
, and reached the top 100 of others such as the Swiss's, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
's and the Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
's albums chart. The album charted lower than its predecessor in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, where it debuted and peaked at number 171.
Critical response
Have One On Me received positive reviews upon its release based on an aggregate score of 85 out of 100 at MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
, indicating "Universal Acclaim".Based upon 35 reviews according to Metacritic
Metacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
Most of the reviews made note of the sprawling nature of, and the varied styles present in the album, and that whilst a longer album than Ys
Ys (album)
Ys is the second album by Joanna Newsom. It was released by Drag City on November 14, 2006 to widespread critical acclaim. The album was named after the city of Ys, which according to myth was built on the coast of Brittany and later swallowed by the ocean...
the orchestral arrangements are scaled-back and less ornate in comparison to Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. Parks is perhaps best known for his contributions as a lyricist on the Beach Boys album Smile....
' arrangements on that album. The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
noted that just as Ys was a considerately more ambitious album than The Milk-Eyed Mender
The Milk-Eyed Mender
The Milk-Eyed Mender is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom, released on March 23, 2004 on the Drag City label ....
, Have One On Me represented a "correspondingly Knievel
Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel , born Robert Craig Knievel, was an American daredevil and entertainer. In his career he attempted over 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps between 1965 and 1980, and in 1974, a failed jump across Snake River Canyon in the Skycycle X-2, a steam-powered rocket...
-like vault". The Wire
The Wire (magazine)
The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but branched out in the early 1990s to various types of experimental music...
magazine as well as several other reviews noted the expansion of Newsom's musical palette to include instruments such as tambura
Tambura
The tambura, tanpura, or tambora is a long-necked plucked lute . The body shape of the tambura somewhat resembles that of the sitar, but it has no frets – only the open strings are played to accompany other musicians...
and kaval
Kaval
The kaval is a chromatic end-blown flute traditionally played throughout Azerbaijan, Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, southern Serbia , northern Greece , Romania , and Armenia...
, whilst other critics including Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media
Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork or P4k, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication established in 1995 that is devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. Its focus is on underground and independent music, especially indie rock...
drew comparison to Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
's 1970s material. They also made note of the maturing of Newsom's voice, particularly Ann Powers' review in the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
and Simon Vozick-Levinson in Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
.
Anthony Carew of About.com
About.com
About.com is an online source for original information and advice. It is written in English, and is aimed primarily at North Americans. It is owned by The New York Times Company....
gave the album 5 stars calling Have One On Me "colossal" and "all of the tremors and squeaks of her original screech have been smoothed out, her polished-stone voice rolling syllables into honeyed slurs", aside concluding that "armed with more beautiful singing, more rich orchestration, and more open emotion, there's not a difficult note on here; it's two hours amounting to a staggering portrait of an artist defiantly staking her claim as one of the greatest of the 21st century." Philip Cosores of Consequence of Sound
Consequence of Sound
Consequence of Sound, also known often as CoS, is a Chicago-based music website featuring news, album and concert reviews, and editorials. In addition, the website also features the Festival Outlook micro-site, which serves as an on-line database for music festival news and rumors...
also gave the album a perfect score claiming that "records like Have One On Me are why [perfect scores] exist". The reviewer also wrote favorably about its production and songwriting referring to them as "emotional moments, moments you can’t help but imagine being moved to tears, even if you are not actually moved to do so". John Mulvey of Uncut
UNCUT (magazine)
Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, but also includes film and books sections...
gone even further writing that Have One On Me "sounds very much like a second masterpiece: a different kind of epic to Ys
Ys (album)
Ys is the second album by Joanna Newsom. It was released by Drag City on November 14, 2006 to widespread critical acclaim. The album was named after the city of Ys, which according to myth was built on the coast of Brittany and later swallowed by the ocean...
, and one with enough hooks and charms to ensnare at least a few Newsom agnostics" whist Louis Pattison of BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
felt that "as an album, it is huge, sometimes overwhelming – but such is the strength and individuality of Newsom’s vision, it seems almost inconceivable she could produce anything unremarkable". The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
s Jon Pareles pointed that she "has discovered how to open up her music: to let it whisper and swell, to be swept into the purely musical pleasures of an ingenious arrangement or to let simplicity and silence speak for her." The Irish Times
The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Paul O'Neill. The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays...
gave the album 5 stars assuming that although "triple albums are a risk, Newsom pulls this off beautifully."
Allison Stewart of The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
called Have One On Me "her magnum opus, a three-disc set being likened to a freak-folk Sandinista!
Sandinista!
Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English punk rock band the Clash. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side...
, though it feels more like a musical Ulysses
Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,...
." musicOMH
MusicOMH
musicOMH is a United Kingdom-based website which publishes independent reviews, featues and interviews from across all musical genres including classical, metal, rock and R&B.-History:...
s Darren Harvey awarded the album 5 stars recognized that it is "winding, long-winded, densely poetic, and often challenging", but "never tedious or self-indulgent", an opinion also shared by Dan Cairns of The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
. James Reed of the Boston Globe wrote favorably about its production stating that "she could have easily overstuffed these songs, like the dizzying album cover, but instead Newsom keeps a tight grip on the music’s dramatic arcs. Songs tend to open with a simple melody on harp or piano before plummeting into countless rabbit holes".
Mark Richardson of Pitchfork
Pitchfork
A pitchfork is an agricultural tool with a long handle and long, thin, widely separated pointed tines used to lift and pitch loose material, such as hay, leaves, grapes, dung or other agricultural materials. Pitchforks typically have two or three tines...
gave the album 9.2 out of 10. He wrote that "The highlights are spread out evenly, and Newsom couldn't have sequenced the record any better," and, referring to lyrics from the opening track echoed in the closer, "it reinforces just how many threads she's weaved between those songs and how incredible it is to discover new things with every listen. Paste Magazines Jeff Vrabel referred to it as a "panoramic dreamworld" and wrote that "Have One On Me is packed with magic." Jim Scott of Under the Radar
Under the Radar (magazine)
Under the Radar is an American magazine that bills itself as "The solution to music pollution" and features interviews with accompanying photo-shoots. Each issue includes opinion and commentary of the Indie music scene as well as reviews on books, DVDs and albums.Items are reviewed based on a...
awarded the album 9 out of 10 stating that Newsom "has never been one of those artists who leave the listener wanting more, knowing that there's more to give." To him "the massive amount of material contained in Have One On Me will take a long time to digest. Perhaps as long as it takes her to produce another album". Drowned In Sound
Drowned in Sound
DrownedinSound.com or DiS is a UK based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway . The site is an editorially independent music website.-History:...
also gave the same rating and praised Newsom's vocals and lyrics, while the former being described as "winsome and technically much improved" and the latter being pointed as "one of her strongest points." To the reviewer the album is "for now, a stunning and ambitious piece of work; one for the ages". Sputnikmusic
Sputnikmusic
Sputnikmusic, or simply Sputnik, is a music website offering music criticism and music news alongside features commonly associated with wiki-style websites...
rated the album 4½ stars out of 5 commenting that "it's been a long time since an album like this was released: an album that is intensely personal even if you can't relate to the lyrics, even if you've never been in love, even if you've never lost something, even if you've never really felt alive." To Chris Parkin of Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
Have One On Me is "nothing short of remarkable", while No Ripcord
No Ripcord
No Ripcord is an online music and film magazine based in Sheffield, England.-History:The website was originally created in April 1999 by editor-in-chief David Coleman and A.M. Booth...
awarded the album a full score, a second for Newsom, referring to it as "one of the finest albums of this, or any, year." Renowned Music critic Piero Scaruffi
Piero Scaruffi
Piero Scaruffi received a degree in Mathematics in 1982 from University of Turin, where he did work on the General Theory of Relativity. For a number of years he was the head of the Artificial Intelligence Center at Olivetti, based in Cupertino, California. He has been a visiting scholar at...
affirmed that "exhausting and exhilarating, this album pushed Newsom to a higher orbit than any of her contemporary singer-songwriter"; Ultimately awarding the record an eight and a half out of ten rating.
Spin
Spin (magazine)
Spin is a music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr.-History:In its early years, the magazine was noted for its broad music coverage with an emphasis on college-oriented rock music and on the ongoing emergence of hip-hop. The magazine was eclectic and bold, if sometimes haphazard...
s Andy Beta expressed that Newsom "gives what few artists can deliver: a self-contained world of warmth, crystalline detail, and intimacy that lies far beyond a Twitter feed." in his 4 star review. Q Magazine gave the same rating and shared a similar opinion commenting that "Have One On Me is a record so richly involving that it promises to throw up fresh delights weeks, or even months, down the line." NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
stated in its 8/10 review that "most bands don’t make that many great songs in their whole darned career." Simmy Richman of The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
described it as "a monumental work in more ways than one." Will Dean of The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
pointed that "at two-hours-plus, it's a record that demands concentration to appreciate its splatterings of beauty. But pour yourself a glass and listen, because they don't make them like this too often." Will Hermes of Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
awarded the album 3½ stars out of 5 praising the lyrics and believing that it "firmly establishes her as a singer-songwriter to be reckoned with", while the German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
version of the same magazine gave Have One On Me 4½ stars and placed Newsom as the cover story of its march issue. Giving it 3½ stars, Heather Phares of Allmusic commented that "the first disc presents Newsom’s biggest departures", but that "the album’s cross between The Milk-Eyed Mender
The Milk-Eyed Mender
The Milk-Eyed Mender is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom, released on March 23, 2004 on the Drag City label ....
and Ys
Ys (album)
Ys is the second album by Joanna Newsom. It was released by Drag City on November 14, 2006 to widespread critical acclaim. The album was named after the city of Ys, which according to myth was built on the coast of Brittany and later swallowed by the ocean...
isn’t always greater than the sum of its parts". Andy Battaglia of The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. Its features include reviews of new films, music, television, books, games and DVDs, as well as interviews and other regular offerings examining both new and classic media and other elements of pop culture. Unlike its...
gave it a B grade and wrote that "Have One On Me doesn’t hold out any clear organizational structure to cinch it all together. Or at least it hasn’t yet", while Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
in his 2½ out of 4 stars review commented that "history tells us that most triple albums could’ve benefited from some pruning, and Have One On Me is no exception."
As with Newsom's other studio albums, Have One On Me has received criticism and mixed to negative reviews. Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine is an online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The site covers various film festivals like the New York Film Festival.- History :...
s Matthew Cole rated it 2 stars out of 5. Cole said it was "remarkable how little narrative arc develops either within or between songs," and that most of the album plays out with "moments of inspired performance scattered haphazardly throughout tracks that just don't feel like they've been thought through." He went on to call the record "a strange, and strangely pretentious mess: an album pitted deep in the psychic world of stories that nonetheless can't figure out when it should begin, when it should end, or which parts are even worth the audience's attention." Matthew Fiander of PopMatters
PopMatters
PopMatters is an international webzine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater,...
gave the album 4 out of 10 points and described the songs as "formless", although he recognized that there were standout tracks, and some of them came at least close of others songs by Newsom such as Only Skin. He also expressed disappointment, commenting that "it’s too bad really, that Have One On Me is so overdone because there’s a decent album hidden somewhere in there. It’s an album the Newsom we saw in 2006 would have found, formed, and made shine". In contrast, Zach Schonfeld of the same website has been more positive towards the album while reviewing one of her concerts, describing it as "the closest Newsom will come to a Blood on the Tracks
Blood on the Tracks
Blood on the Tracks is Bob Dylan's 15th studio album, released by Columbia Records in January 1975. The album marked Dylan's return to Columbia after a two-album stint with Asylum Records....
— a confessional opus, straight from the gut."
Accolades
| Publication | Accolade | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| About About.com About.com is an online source for original information and advice. It is written in English, and is aimed primarily at North Americans. It is owned by The New York Times Company.... |
Best Records of 2010 | #1 |
| Blow Up Magazine | Top 10 Albums of 2010 | #3 |
| Consequence of Sound Consequence of Sound Consequence of Sound, also known often as CoS, is a Chicago-based music website featuring news, album and concert reviews, and editorials. In addition, the website also features the Festival Outlook micro-site, which serves as an on-line database for music festival news and rumors... |
Top 100 Albums of 2010 | #24 |
| Top 50 Songs of 2010 (for Baby Birch) | #24 | |
| Delusions of Adequacy | Top Albums of 2010 | #50 |
| Drowned in Sound Drowned in Sound DrownedinSound.com or DiS is a UK based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway . The site is an editorially independent music website.-History:... |
Top Albums of 2010 | #34 |
| Exclaim! Exclaim! Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists... |
Top Albums of 2010 | #12 |
| Gaffa Gaffa (magazine) Gaffa is a free Danish music magazine, published on a monthly basis since 1983. The magazine is distributed to places such as educational institutions, record shops, libraries and cafés, as well as a small number to paying subscribers... |
Top 50 Albums of 2010 | #13 |
| Gorilla vs. Bear Gorilla vs. Bear Gorilla vs. Bear is a leading mp3 blog for independent music MP3s, videos, news, and reviews from all genres. It was created by Chris Cantalini in March 2005, and David Bartholow joined as a contributor in 2006. Gorilla vs. Bear regularly features unknown, established, and independent unsigned... |
Best Albums of 2010 | #5 |
| The Guardian The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... |
Top 40 Albums of 2010 | #28 |
| Les Inrockuptibles Les Inrockuptibles Les Inrockuptibles is a French cultural magazine. Started as a monthly magazine in 1986, it became weekly in 1995. The name is a play on "Les Incorruptibles", the French title of the American television series The Untouchables... |
Top 100 Albums of 2010 | #41 |
| The Line of Best Fit | Top 50 Albums of 2010 | #27 |
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| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | MOJO Awards MOJO Awards The MOJO Awards is an awards ceremony that began in 2004 by Mojo, a popular music magazine published monthly by Bauer in the United Kingdom... |
Best Album |
Track listing
The track listing was leaked in January, but it was only officially announced by Drag CityDrag City (record label)
Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...
and reported by other vehicles in February. All songs written by Joanna Newsom.
Performance
- Joanna Newsom - harp, piano, vocals
- Alex Camphouse - horn
- Dan Cantrell - piano, hammond organ, pump organ, harpischord, accordion
- Patrick Cress - bass clarinet
- Ryan Francesconi - Bulgarian tamburaTamburaThe tambura, tanpura, or tambora is a long-necked plucked lute . The body shape of the tambura somewhat resembles that of the sitar, but it has no frets – only the open strings are played to accompany other musicians...
, kavalKavalThe kaval is a chromatic end-blown flute traditionally played throughout Azerbaijan, Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, southern Serbia , northern Greece , Romania , and Armenia...
, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, banjo, mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, soprano recorder - Sascha Groschang - cello
- Djeina Haruta - viola
- Shawn Jones - bassoon
- Shira KammenShira KammenMulti-instrumentalist and vocalist Shira Kammen received her degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet Tindemans. She has performed and taught throughout the world and has played on several television and movie soundtracks, including "O", a modern...
- vielleVielleThe vielle is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the Medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, five gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs. The instrument was also known as a fidel or a viuola, although the French...
, rebecRebecThe rebecha is a bowed string musical instrument. In its most common form, it has a narrow boat-shaped body and 1-5 strings and is played on the arm or under the chin, like a violin.- Origins :The rebec dates back to the Middle Ages and was particularly popular in the 15th and 16th centuries... - Dan Koretzky - timpani
- Katie Kresek - violin
- Judith Linsenberg - alto, tenor and bass recorderRecorderThe recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...
- Kane Mathis - kora
- Greg Moore - backing vocals
- Thom Moore - backing vocals
- Neal Morgan - drum set, percussion, timpani, backing vocals
- David Morris - viola da Gamba
- Yeolim Nam - violin
- Eric Oberthaler - trumpet, cornet
- Philip Payton - violin
- Laura Reynolds - oboe
- Andrew Roitstein - double bass
- Phaedon Sinis - flute, tarhuTarhuThe tarhu is a string instrument played with a bow. It is an invention of Peter Biffin....
, kemence - Lily Storm - backing vocals
- Andrew Strain - trombone
Production
- Joanna Newsom - producer, songwriter, harp, piano and vocal arrangements
- Ryan Francesconi - arrangements, conductor
- Noah GeorgesonNoah GeorgesonNoah Georgeson is a musician, producer, and solo recording artist. Georgeson's debut album Find Shelter was released through Plain Recordings on November 28, 2006. He is credited as having "written, scored, arranged, recorded, and produced" the entirety of Find Shelter, according to a press...
- mixing - Jim O'RourkeJim O'Rourke (musician)Jim O'Rourke is an Irish-American musician and record producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene...
- mixing - Steve Rooke - mastering
- Becca Mann - cover art
- Annabel Mehran - photographer
- Greg Moore - additional arrangements
- Thom Moore - additional arrangements
- Neal Morgan - drum and percussion arrangements, additional arrangements
- Dan Osborn - layout designer
- Lila Sklar - additional arrangements
- Corinna Taylor - calligraphy
Chart positions
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Austrian Album Charts Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann... |
49 |
| Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... Ultratop Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... |
46 |
| Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... (U.S.) |
75 |
| Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Digital Albums (U.S.) |
16 |
| Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Independent Albums (U.S.) |
7 |
| Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Folk Albums (U.S.) |
1 |
| Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS... |
80 |
| German Albums Chart | 40 |
| European Top 100 Albums European Top 100 Albums The European Top 100 Albums chart is the European adaptation of the Billboard 200 albums chart. It was created in March 1984.The European Top 100 Albums, commonly referred to as Eurochart Top 100 Albums shows the sales of an act in 19 European countries based on IFPI data.The European Top 100... |
46 |
| French Albums Chart Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... |
171 |
| Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically... |
24 |
| Norwegian Album Charts VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by... |
16 |
| Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... MegaCharts MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
54 |
| Swedish Album Charts Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association .... |
54 |
| Swiss Music Charts Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75... |
75 |
| UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
28 |
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | February 22, 2010 | Spunk Records | CD/Vinyl/Digital | URA321 |
| North America | February 23, 2010 | Drag City Records | CD/Vinyl/Digital | DC390 |
| Germany | February 26, 2010 | Rough Trade Records Rough Trade Records Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove... |
CD/Vinyl/Digital | |
| United Kingdom | March 1, 2010 | Drag City Records | CD/Vinyl/Digital | DC390 |
| Japan | March 3, 2010 | P-Vine Records P-Vine Records P-Vine Records is a record label started by Blues Interactions, Inc., a firm in Tokyo, Japan established in 1975 by Yasufumi Higurashi and Akira Kochi... |
CD/Vinyl/Digital | |
| France | March 8, 2010 | Drag City Records | CD/Vinyl/Digital |