Product Description

After an eight year absence from the music industry, this is the follow-up to Madeleine Peyroux's 1996 debut album 'Dreamland'. The Georgian-born contemporary jazz artist returns with a collection of her own songs and many distinctive covers, including Bob Dylan's 'You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go'.

Track Listing

1. Dance Me To The End Of Love
2. Don't Wait Too Long
3. Don't Cry Baby
4. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
5. Between The Bars
6. No More
7. Lonesome Road
8. J'Ai Deux Amours
9. Weary Blues
10. I'll Look Around
11. Careless Love
12. This Is Heaven To Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2140 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 43 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
When Madeleine Peyroux's debut, Dreamland, was released in 1996, its success threw her for a loop. She's taken eight years to create this follow-up, and, at age 30, she brings a confidence and resilience to this dozen-song set. She's able to move seamlessly between songs by writers as diverse as Elliott Smith and W.C. Handy, whose title track was popularized by Bessie Smith. Though American-born, Peyroux absorbed the language and culture of France growing up in Paris with her French-teacher mother. On her debut, she covered Edith Piaf, and this time out she wraps herself around "J'ai Deux Amours," which Josephine Baker sang to the Allied troops during World War II. --David Greenberger

The Times ****
A thing of late night beauty.......Soulful, intimate style...could give Norah Jones a run for her silky smooth money'

Independent On Sunday ****
'Peyroux has a voice that definetly draws the listener in.....damned intriguing'.

Customer Reviews

Enchanting
If you like the voices of Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald at their melancholy best then you'll like this CD.

Madeleine Peyroux has the reputation for being an offbeat and thoughtful character. Maybe because she takes her art so seriously. Strange fruit that is essentially beautiful.

Original artist, new definition of "easy listening"
When I heard Peyroux' delicious tempo on her re-interpretation of "J'ai deux amours" and those delightful piano sounds on it, I was lost.
And who would dare to cover Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love"? But she succeeds and makes it her own.

Madeleine Peyroux has a marvellous "timeless" voice that brings you in another world or time. She creates a wonderful, warm and smooth jazzy atmosphere, with a country touch, indeed like Norah Jones, despite many differences too. And the occasional hammond organ is adorable!

Yet let's not forget that you either adore or hate this kind of voice, there is no way in between.

Many sweeeeet songs, not necessarily world class, but highly entertaining nevertheless. Redefines "EASY listening": very easy and pleasing to the ear. Always gives me a happy feeling!

But the top of all for me is "I'll Look Around", a touching superslow jazz ballad with remarkable phrasing, which, in my opinion, beats Billie Holiday's original! And I'd like to mention the very nice lyrics of this song too!

Beautiful music
This album is a delight. All the tracks are slightly different although they all live loosely in the jazz/blues arena. Madeleine plays the guitar with a sure touch and her gorgeous singing voice is like Billie Holliday, only more so if that's possible. I defy anyone to listen to this and not end up smiling.