Noah Adams, "New Voice in Folk Rock: Singer Mason Jennings Traffics in Love and Melancholy," npr.org, 1 Jan 2002

  ...he learned about the power of space in music: The feeling created when a breath ends or when a guitar stops for a moment, and silence lingers.
  "In today's age you go into a studio and people always tell you to put all of these instruments into your record," says Jennings. "I just like to write with economy and try to set up an architecture in the song where I don't need to add anything."
More thoughts on doing just the essential.