Wonderful indeed, looking forward to it! Brings to mind the Langley Schools Music Project, and especially that bit in Anderson’s youth orchestra foray, of a girl singing “Desperado.” Who knows, maybe this experience, or even that girl in particular, inspired a kind of naive inflection in some of Anderson’s vocals.
I have a chapbook she published in 1979, Words in Reverse, that has a lot of the same verse in it that she used for Big Science (“You’re walking… and you don’t always realize it but you’re always falling…”). Seems like her early recordings were amalgams of things she’d been doing, an effort to finally find combinations that worked well together.
Ha-- Re-verse…
