Joanna Newsom pays tribute to Steve Albini: “he’s been so enormously important in my life for so many years”

So many musicians have paid tribute to Steve Albini since he unexpectedly passed away from a heart attack on Tuesday (5/7), and that continued when Joanna Newsom paid tribute to him during her set at Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party festival on Friday night (5/10). She dedicated “Cosmia,” the closing track of her 2006 Steve Albini-recorded album Ys, to him, and said the following:
“On the list of all the reasons that he’s my hero, music and music-related stuff doe