Madeleine Peyroux- Careless Love
  • Dance Me to the End of Love
  • Don't Wait Too Long
  • Don't Cry Baby
  • You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
  • Between the Bars
  • No More
  • Lonesome Road
  • J'Ai Deux Amours
  • Weary Blues from Waitin'
  • I'll Look Around
  • Careless Love
  • This Is Heaven to Me
  • Dance Me to the End of Love
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (03:56) [8.99 MB]
  • Don't Wait Too Long
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (03:10) [7.25 MB]
  • Don't Cry Baby
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (03:16) [7.49 MB]
  • You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (03:26) [7.86 MB]
  • Between the Bars
    Genre: (Choose a Genre)
    MP3 (03:43) [8.51 MB]
  • No More
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (03:31) [8.06 MB]
  • Lonesome Road
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (03:10) [7.24 MB]
  • J'Ai Deux Amours
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (02:54) [6.65 MB]
  • Weary Blues from Waitin'
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (03:39) [8.35 MB]
  • I'll Look Around
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (04:47) [10.94 MB]
  • Careless Love
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (03:50) [8.77 MB]
  • This Is Heaven to Me
    Genre: Jazz
    MP3 (03:12) [7.31 MB]
Biography
For more information, contact:
Ashley Moyer
Rounder Records
amoyer@rounder.com


Why it took vocalist Madeleine Peyroux eight years to follow up her acclaimed Dreamland album is anybody's guess. The explanation from her website bio claims, "I could have kept running with it, but I took a breather." Really it hardly matters, since there have been plenty of capable singers to fill that void. Produced by Larry Klein, Careless Love is essentially Dreamland part deux. She lost Yves Beauvais and Atlantic Records, as well as a stellar cast of edgy jazz and rock session players, but she did gain Larry Klein. There are some fine players on this album, including Larry Goldings, Scott Amendola, David Piltch, and Dean Parks, and it's a much more focused set than Dreamland. That she's on Rounder is just an "oh well." Since Klein is not reined in by having to be a "jazz" producer, his sense of restrained and subtle adventure is a perfect foil for Peyroux's voice and phrasing, which is still too close to the Billie Holiday model for comfort. The material is a curious collection of modern pop songs, country tunes, and old nuggets. There's an original as well in "Don't Wait Too Long," co-written with Jesse Harris and Klein. Peyroux's reading of Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love" that opens the disc is radical, sung like a German cabaret song, and lacks the drama of the original, which is on purpose but it's questionable as to whether it works.

Her cover of Bob Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" works much better. It keeps the breeziness of the original but focuses on the object of the song still being very present to the protagonist -- delighting in the presence of the Beloved. Parks' guitars play sparely and pronouncedly in the mix, as Amendola's brushwork complements the spare cymbal and tom-tom work of Jay Bellerose as well as Goldings' in-the-groove organ and piano. The hinge track on this record is the empathic and moving version of Elliott Smith's "Between the Bars." With tense sound effects whispering in the backdrop and Goldings' celeste setting the atmosphere, once again Amendola's brushes whisper and shimmer, giving the singer an anchor in the depth of the song's melancholy. It's simply awesome. The sparse haunted treatment of Hank Williams' "Weary Blues" is devoid of its country trappings and rooted firmly in the uptown blues tradition of Holiday's 1940s. Likewise, the title track, a classic standard by W.C. Handy, is turned inside out and made a gospel-flavored R&B tune, driven by Goldings on the organ and a Rhodes piano -- an instrument that makes a frequent appearance here. Parks' subtle yet dirty guitar gives the singer a platform and she swims inside the lyric, letting it fall from her mouth. The tune's swing quotient is formidable. In all, this is a stronger record than Dreamland, in part because Klein is obviously sympathetic to singers and because Peyroux is a more confident and commanding singer. It's a welcome addition to the shelf, but if she waits another eight years, that space reserved for her may disappear.

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  • Members:
    Madeline Peyroux
  • Sounds Like:
    Ella Fitzgerald
  • Influences:
    Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles
  • AirPlay Direct Member Since:
    01/18/18
  • Profile Last Updated:
    08/14/23 14:23:04

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