Word: offhanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eight years, bass player Larry Klein -- have some jazz background. They know, as Mitchell puts it, "how to see around corners." They can lend her delicate rhythms a strong foundation without blowing them away. Mitchell's own prominent acoustic guitar gives the whole album a kind of casual, offhand luster. "Initially, I was taken for a folk singer," Mitchell reflects. "Then folk singing was out of vogue and folk rock was in. Then for a while I was considered to be a country musician. My music ((now)) is not jazz. I'm a bit of an explorer...
...Rowlandson had none of Hogarth's ambition for major categories of art, not just history painting, but oil painting itself. He was perfectly content with pen and watercolor. But his mastery of them was complete, and it shows everywhere: in the supple energy of his line, in the feathery offhand signs for foliage and clouds, in the unerring grasp of tone that enabled him to particularize those dense, rowdy friezes of people so coherently against the pale buildings and landscapes...