CARELESS LOVE
Last updated 6/7/2006
Madeleine on Careless Love
"It is always a choice opportunity to try and cover a great songwriter’s work. This record is one of those precious opportunities."
"I am in love with every one of these songwriters as well as their songs. I was eager to make that heard during the recordings."
"It is always a choice opportunity to try and cover a great songwriter’s work. This record is one of those precious opportunities."
"I am in love with every one of these songwriters as well as their songs. I was eager to make that heard during the recordings."
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She Makes Both Joy and Heartbreak Sound so Good
from Associated Content
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Peyroux is shockingly good ...
by Mark Runyon for PM Media Review (2/24/2005)
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... "Careless Love" is like a musical marriage.
WBUR.org - Boston
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No false emotion: Madeleine Peyroux returns to interpret the greats
By Alan Lewis (5/27/2005)for the Vermont Guardian
- Third album by Lady Day devotee from Athens, Georgia
Norah Jones and Jane Monheit may have spawned a cutesy genre of jazz-lite
chirping, but it's one that Peyroux neatly sidesteps. Here, less is
definitely more. Accompanied by piano, guitar, string bass, lightly brushed
snare drum and occasional gospel organ, Careless Love has the same
live-in-the-studio ambience that made Peggy Lee's Black Coffee a benchmark
album. An interpretive artist as opposed to a nothing-to-say
singer-songwriter, Peyroux avoids the overworked wine bar songbook,
bringing new sensibilities to Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me To The End Of Love"
and Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go".
by Roy Carr for Uncut (issue 95) (thanks to Martin Shori)
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...Peyroux is ten times the singer that Jones is...
by T.J. Simon for The Music Box (March 2005, Volume 12, #3)
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...this is Madeleine Peyroux.
By Frankie Hagan (12/2004) for The Port Halcyon Daily Review
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... this record evokes the restless after-hours mood of strolling on the streets of Paris...
By David Chiu for NewsBeats
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Im Namen Der Herrn. Mit Madleine Peyroux aufersteht Billie Holiday.
(in German)
by Peter Rüedi for Die WeltWoche
by David Skinner (2/25/2005) for The Daily Standard
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The music that keeps us going ...
3. Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love: The sweet vocals of Peyroux graced the Vilar Center a few weeks ago and if you missed her live, it’s worth checking out her newest album. It’s taken Peyroux eight years to follow-up her debut album, Dreamland, and it was well worth the wait. Many people have compared her sound to Billie Holiday and we tend to agree. Either way, she moves seamlessly between tunes by W.C. Handy and Hank Williams to more contemporary songs by Leonard Cohen and Elliott Smith.
Vail Trail Issue Thursday, February 24, 2005
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...then there are born jazz singers...
Ed Bumgardner (2/24/2005) for Relish Now!
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The singer who disappeared.
After 8 years, Madeleine Peyroux returns with 'Careless Love'
By Todd Leopold (1/12/2005), CNN
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... this shy-looking American singer and guitarist has already being trumpeted as the find of 2005.
By Mark Hudson for telegraph.co.uk (2/7/2005)
- ... Some '04
standouts
overlooked by Grammy
Madeleine Peyroux, "Careless Love" (Rounder) With pipes reminiscent of Billie Holiday, Peyroux lollygags behind the beat, croons in French, and pulls off breezy jazz treatments of works by songsters as diverse as W. C. Handy and Elliott Smith. "This should have been in Grammy's contemporary jazz category," says Susan Castle, music programmer for KGSR in Austin, where the album topped the station's year-end listener poll.
By Dan Gilgoff from Grammy Forgot, Diversions from USNews.com (2/11/2005 issue)
- ... Music she danced to during our photo shoot: Madeleine Peyroux's Careless Love CD.
Profile of Joanne Woodward with no other Madeleine reference
Hollywood's Hottest, by Nancy Griffin, AARP Magazine, March & April 2005
- ... Music for adults
In recent weeks, "Careless Love" (Rounder), a record on an independent label by a sophisticated pop-jazz vocalist named Madeleine Peyroux, has quietly edged past 100,000 sales with almost no radio airplay. It's become an out-of-left-field hit in cafes, wine bars and spas, where its smoky ambience suits the mostly post-college-age clientele.
"People who have heard the record in these places have had an immediate reaction: Who is that? Where can I get that?" says Paul Foley, general manager of marketing for Peyroux's label, Rounder Records. "We're looking for an upper-demographic audience that is not being served currently by the record industry's marketing schemes."
By Greg Kot, excerpted from Chicago Tribune 1/23/2005
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Why it took vocalist Madeleine Peyroux eight year ...
Thom Jurek (12/18/2004) for All Music Guide
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The chanteuse as a style has ...
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George Graham (10/6/2004) - Graham Weekly Album Review #1377
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'Careless Love' Review (in German)
Jazz Echo (10/1/2004)
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Review of 'Careless Love'
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Kevin Whitehead on Fresh Air (12/28/2004)
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The Return Of Madeleine Peyroux
Keith and Kent Zimmerman (10/21/2004) for JazzWeek.com
(also in 11/12 printed JazzWeek)
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Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love
Bernard Zuel (12/24/2004) for Sydney Morning Herald online
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Blurring the boundaries of all that's jazz
Alison Kerr for Scotland on Sunday (12/19/2004)
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Westcoast Music Blog 11/23/2004 review of Careless Love
- After her impressive 1996 debut album, "Dreamland," Georgia-born and
Paris/New York-raised Madeleine Peyroux disappeared from the recording business.Now 30, she returns eight years later with the sweet collection "Careless Love."
Peyroux still channels Billie Holiday with her languidly engaging delivery and distinctive phrasing.
And she puts her signature on some surprisingly reworked numbers - Leonard Cohen's
"Dance Me to the End of Love," Bob Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome,"
Hank Williams' "Weary Blues," and "Lonesome Road," which was first recorded by Gene Austin in 1928.
By Wayne Bledsoe from the Sun, Nov. 21 KnoxvilleNews.com
Jim Manion, WFHB Bloomington, Indiana - for TripleARadio.com
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Record Reviews - Madeleine Peyroux, 'Careless Love'
Nick Cristiano (11/14/2004) for Philly.com
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Madeleine Peyroux, l'expérience intérieure
Par Nicolas Ungemuth (11/6/2004) Le Figaro Magazine
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Short review of 'Careless Love' in German Rolling Stone (in German)
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Songstress Peyroux's jazz CD has been worth the wait
By Melody Baetens (11/5/2004) / The Detroit News
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Review of Careless Love (in German
by Fredi Bosshard for WochenZeitung
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Review of Careless Love (in German)
by Ulf Drechsel (10/6/2004), Kulturradio am Mittag
by Bill DeMain for PureMusic.com
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Music Reviews: Madeleine Peyroux
by Terry Lawson (10/10/2004) Detroit Free Press
(published in multiple newspapers)
by Rob Trucks (10/13/2004) for East Bay Express
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PEYROUX BREAKS SEVEN-YEAR SILENCE
By Sam Hurwitt (10/17/2004) for San Francisco Chronicle
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Jazz singer Peyroux flush with romance in her music
By Charles Levin (10/17/2004) for Santa Cruz Sentinel
By Robert Baird (10/2004)
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Careless Love '... is a moody, haunting masterpiece ...'
By David French (10/14/2004) for All About Jazz
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Slideshow/'Dance Me to the End of Love' (requires Real Player)
From 10/12/2004 NPR 'all songs considered'
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Madeleine Peyroux is back, stronger and true to herself
By Roberta Penn - 10/15/2004 from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Review by Andrew Gilbert - 10/15/2004 from Mercury News
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Peyroux Trawls Through The American Songbook
Review by Alexander Varty - 10/07/2004 from straight.com
- Singer Peyroux Returns with 'Careless Love'" -
NPR Weekend Edition 10/3/2004
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Madeleine Peyroux: A Musical Stylist Who May Eclipse Nora Jones' Success
Review by Lapeste - 10/03/2004
- 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.
Amazon.com review by David Greenberger
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Review of 'Careless Love' on blogcritics.org
review by ClubhouseCancer - 10/1/2004
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Finally, but finally, Madeleine Peyroux's much-anticipated second album ...
BRUB: Brooklyn Bridge User Group Blog - 09/25/2004
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www.voir.ca (9/9/2004 in French)
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Dallas Observer review of Careless Love (9/2/2004) by Robert Wilonsky
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Earthlink Entertainment Review
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MusicTap (8/30/2004) by Matt Rowe
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The Boston Phoenix (Sept 3-9, 2004) by Eliot Wilder
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Billboard Review of Careless Love (Sept 17)
- Madeleine Peyroux received rave reviews for her 1996 debut album Dreamland,
particularly for her smoky, Billie Holiday-influenced vocals. Eight years later,
she’s finally back with her second album, and it finds her stretching out a bit
musically – along with covering vintage chestnuts from the likes of W.C. Handy,
Hank Williams and Gene Austin, she masterfully interprets songs from more modern
songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Elliott Smith. And even with all the
impressive covers, she contributes one of the album’s highlights: “Don’t Wait Too Long,”
a bluesy roots-pop tune she co-wrote with Norah Jones band member Jesse Harris and
producer Larry Klein. The album features tastefully understated production, and
her vocal style remains as intoxicating as ever.
by Don Yates (8/26/2004) from KEPX Seattle
- Among Bob Dylan’s manifold songwriting assets is his work’s vulnerability to interpretation — what other American icon has had his writing edited for public consciousness by the likes of Manfred Mann and Peter, Paul and Mary? Recently, collections have been issued featuring Dylan covers by country; gospel and reggae artists. But perhaps the shrewdest present-day reading of a Dylan song is by the Paris-bred torch singer Madeleine Peyroux, who here transforms “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” into a sultry ballad that seems to predate the original by 30 years. Dragging the song to a sleepy crawl, Peyroux ignores the false joy with which Dylan himself has approached the number and instead reinforces his words with a rueful croon that reflects her debt to Billie Holiday.
This is Peyroux’s first album since her 1996 debut, Dreamland. It was an untimely hiatus: While she was sleeping, Norah Jones drew a fan base roughly the size of planet Earth by performing in a similarly modest style that teeters between pop and jazz. Peyroux is more of a traditionalist. Whether reworking W.C. Handy or Elliott Smith, she draws on jazz singers from way back, generally surfacing with resourceful adaptations. Yet nothing rivals the Dylan cover, which deserves the highest honor for this minigenre: May it play at Starbucks for years to come.
by Jay Ruttenberg from the Thu, Sep. 16 TimeOut New York Album Reviews
- LIGHT A TORCH: Many have tried to emulate the languid, conversational yet also sensual aura of Billie Holiday. But the artist who really brings it home is Madeleine Peyroux, back after a long hiatus with ""Careless Love"" (Rounder) produced by Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin.) Repertoire ranges from Hank Williams' ""Weary Blues"" to Leonard Cohen's ""Dance Me to the End of Love.""B+"
from the Tue, Sep. 14 Philadelphia Daily News
- MADELEINE PEYROUX A vocalist who emerged in the mid-90's from singing in the New Orleans streets, Ms. Peyroux could inhabit Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf, doing the tragic, pinched-voice thing perfectly. She still can and does — that little voice remains somehow central to her — but on ""Careless Love,"" her first album in eight years, she enlarges and updates the repertory, wading into the Elliott Smith and Jesse Harris catalogs. Tuesday. Rounder. (She performs at Le Jazz au Bar, 41 East 58th Street, Sept. 20-25.)
from the Sun, Sep. 12 New York Times Arts & Leisure section