Hi Abby, I also like that crazy sound on "Nathan LaFraneer". Inside the album cover, under the musicians credits, it mentions Lee Keefer and Joni Mitchell on banshee. Now I've never seen a banshee instrument, nor do I know how one is played, but I would bet this is the instrument that we hear on Nathan LaFraneer. In Irish folklore, a banshee is a female spirit that delivers her eerie kind of wailing noise to warn a family of an approaching death of a member. "Nathan LaFraneer" is so hauntingly chilling that this noise really fits the setting in the song (the ghostly garden grows).
Some other mentions: "Troubled Child" -I really love the instruments after the words 'breaking like the waves at malibu'. I love the way they come together with a big crescendo, then a crash at the end. This really sounds like ocean waves to me. "This Flight Tonight" - After singing about how she's got the headphones up high, she sings "they're playing 'goodbye baby, baby goodbye'" and this part sounds just like you are sitting next to someone with their headphones up too high. Mia _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
