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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from Associated Content
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by Mark Runyon for PM Media Review (2/24/2005)
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WBUR.org - Boston
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- 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".
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By Frankie Hagan (12/2004) for The Port Halcyon Daily Review
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(in German)
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by David Skinner (2/25/2005) for The Daily Standard
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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.
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Ed Bumgardner (2/24/2005) for Relish Now!
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After 8 years, Madeleine Peyroux returns with 'Careless Love'
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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.
- ... Music she danced to during our photo shoot: Madeleine Peyroux's Careless Love CD.
Profile of Joanne Woodward with no other Madeleine reference
- ... 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."
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Jazz Echo (10/1/2004)
Kevin Whitehead on Fresh Air (12/28/2004)
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Keith and Kent Zimmerman (10/21/2004) for JazzWeek.com
(also in 11/12 printed JazzWeek)
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Bernard Zuel (12/24/2004) for Sydney Morning Herald online
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Alison Kerr for Scotland on Sunday (12/19/2004)
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- 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.
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Jim Manion, WFHB Bloomington, Indiana - for TripleARadio.com
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by Fredi Bosshard for WochenZeitung
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by Ulf Drechsel (10/6/2004), Kulturradio am Mittag
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by Bill DeMain for
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by Terry Lawson (10/10/2004) Detroit Free Press
(published in multiple newspapers)
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by Rob Trucks (10/13/2004) for
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Review by Andrew Gilbert - 10/15/2004 from Mercury News
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[Transcript] [Listen Windows | Real]
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- 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.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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+"
- 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.)