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FEELS LIKE HOME - NORA JONES Our Price: £9.99
Norah Jones blew everybody away with her jazzy, country-tinged, Grammy-winning debut CD, Come Away With Me. On this recording, Jones doesn't mess with her trademark formula. Under Arif Mardin's cozy co-production, Jones is supported by her writing partners, her Handsome Band, and some special guests (country legend Dolly Parton, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson of the Band, and jazz drummer Brian Blade, to name a few). Jones's Texas-twanged vocals and her sparse acoustic and electric Wurlitzer piano lines enliven the CD's 13 tracks, from the light and lively single, "Sunrise" to Tom Waits' "The Long Way Home" and the bouncy duet with Parton, "Creepin' In." Jones's soul-baring piano/vocal rendition of Duke Ellington's "Melancholia," retitled "Don't Miss You at All," proves she's a true Blue Note artist with unlimited potential. --Eugene Holley, Jr.
The title "Feels like home" couldn't have been better. It is exactly that. Feels like home. Lying on the couch with a glass of wine. Getting drunk and sleepy. More sleepy. and... more... slee.. py... Until suddenly a bright springy country number on track 7 jerks you up from dozing. This cruel number spoils everything and wakes you up so you can listen to the rest of the album. Donghee Wohn from Seoul, South Korea
Miss Jones dazzles us aain with "beyond her years" sultry and lanquid lyrics and music. More modern standards appear with What am I to You?, a sprightly upbeat number and Carnival Town, a lanquid country-jazz ballad you'd expect to hear on a 1952 Philco in Ardmore Oklahoma.
The whole of the Cd is beautifully recorded, clear and real, no homogonized over edited pap here, to be sure! Norah is almost a mystical figure, bridging genres and generations as only the great can do! Michael Snyder, tx United States
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