The Milk-Eyed Mender is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Joann… Read Full Bio ↴The Milk-Eyed Mender is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom, released on March 23 2004 on the Drag City label.
Joanna Newsom wrote all the songs on the album except for "Three Little Babes", a traditional Appalachian song. According to the liner notes, Joanna plays "a Lyon & Healy style 15 harp, a wurlitzer electric piano, a harpsichord, and piano."
A bandmate in San Francisco band The Pleased, Noah Georgeson, produced and recorded the album, as well as contributing guitar to two tracks and backing vocals to one. Cover art embroidery is by Emily Prince and photographs are by Alissa Anderson. Newsom thanks former touring partners Will Oldham, Devendra Banhart, and Vetiver, along with many others.
In 2009, Pitchfork named The Milk-Eyed Mender the 47th greatest album of the decade. The website also named "Peach, Plum, Pear" the 197th Greatest Song of the 2000s and "Sprout & The Bean" the 229th.
Joanna Newsom wrote all the songs on the album except for "Three Little Babes", a traditional Appalachian song. According to the liner notes, Joanna plays "a Lyon & Healy style 15 harp, a wurlitzer electric piano, a harpsichord, and piano."
A bandmate in San Francisco band The Pleased, Noah Georgeson, produced and recorded the album, as well as contributing guitar to two tracks and backing vocals to one. Cover art embroidery is by Emily Prince and photographs are by Alissa Anderson. Newsom thanks former touring partners Will Oldham, Devendra Banhart, and Vetiver, along with many others.
In 2009, Pitchfork named The Milk-Eyed Mender the 47th greatest album of the decade. The website also named "Peach, Plum, Pear" the 197th Greatest Song of the 2000s and "Sprout & The Bean" the 229th.
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The Milk-Eyed Mender
Joanna Newsom Lyrics
"En Gallop" This place is damp and ghostly, I am already gone And…
Bridges and Balloons We sailed away on a winter's day With fate as malleable…
Cassiopeia Feel the matress tense beneath me Like the muscle of nonslee…
Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie That means no Where I come from I am cold, out waiting…
Inflammatory Writ Oh, where is your inflammatory writ Your text that would inc…
Peach, Plum, Pear We speak in the store I'm a sensitive bore You seem markedly…
Sadie Sadie White coat You carry me home And bury this bone And ta…
Sprout and the Bean I slept all day I woke with distaste And I railed And I…
Swansea If you wanna come on down Down with your bones so…
The Book of Right-On We should shine a light on, a light on And the…
This Side of the Blue Svetlana sucks lemons across from me And I am progressing a…
Three Little Babes There was a knight and a lady bright And three little…