Blog: Tuneage

Jesca Hoop - " Seed of Wonder " Jesca Hoop was "discovered" while working as a nanny for Tom Waits' kids. She gave Waits a demo that he liked, and he then passed it around until it found its way into heavily-requested rotation at KCRW . Not a bad way to make it, really. Jesca's style roughly fits in with the "Freak Folk" crowd (Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, etc), though that's largely for the quirkiness that can run through her music rather than its freaky folkiness. This song, "Seed of Wonder", is [...]