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Post by musicmania001 on Jan 21, 2007 0:21:21 GMT -5
I hope her albums sells tons..........
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Post by moodang on Jan 21, 2007 10:41:08 GMT -5
Norah is the most talented and beautiful woman I've ever known. I can't wait til Jan30 !!!! ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0270.gif)
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Post by babyboylrtm on Jan 21, 2007 10:44:38 GMT -5
Her cd kinda reeked at first but last night I was on the 3rd song and felt asleep like never before. Norah its doing her thang! I love it ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0270.gif)
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Post by anafan on Jan 21, 2007 18:26:28 GMT -5
Excerpts from UK reviews
"The bar has been raised... Jones has reclaimed her music on her terms" - Mojo "Lovingly crafted and sweetly sung...once again ubiquity seems a shoo-in" - Q "Subtle, political, surprisingly radical...Jones transforms herself into the gentlest of cutting edge artists" - Uncut
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Post by anafan on Jan 22, 2007 0:57:48 GMT -5
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Post by anafan on Jan 22, 2007 1:06:25 GMT -5
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Post by musicmania001 on Jan 22, 2007 2:31:01 GMT -5
Go Norah show these crappy people what real music and real artistry is.........
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Post by M 123 on Jan 22, 2007 2:48:03 GMT -5
AMAZING VIDEOS!!!!!!!!!
"Sinkin' Soon" is the best!!!! AMZING TRACK!! but i imagine the video in a boat! lol
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Post by maxwell on Jan 22, 2007 6:43:33 GMT -5
So Norah has a CD coming out 1/30/07. I haven't checked on her recently and didn't know about it. When I have a moment, I'll be sure to look for her videos. Great news.
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Post by anafan on Jan 22, 2007 11:44:34 GMT -5
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Post by michael7627 on Jan 22, 2007 13:12:49 GMT -5
Why is Hits Daily Double prediciting that this album sells/ships 1,000,000 in it's first week?...maybe 500,000 - 625,000~MAYBE...but 1 millions...not gonna happen!
Don't get me wrong Norah is great but 1 million (???)
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Post by anafan on Jan 22, 2007 13:17:42 GMT -5
They said the label is shipping 1.5 million to stores, not that the album is gonna sell that much first week. First week sales will probably be about 500k or so (I hope).
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Post by loverlylaurel on Jan 22, 2007 14:07:29 GMT -5
She probably won't sell a million in one week because it's just so tough to do that nowadays, but her last album, Feels Like Home, did sell a million copies in its first week of release. So she's already got that unique accomplishment under her belt :)
Dutchess, thanks so much for posting those vidoes. Love them! Can't wait until Jan. 30!
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Post by babyboylrtm on Jan 22, 2007 14:16:40 GMT -5
^^She didn't break any record though.
She'll be fine, I'd say 600k or so. Less than that will be a dissapointment.
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Post by anafan on Jan 22, 2007 17:45:28 GMT -5
Barnes and Noble: Most artists who attain life-altering success right off the bat end up getting intoxicated by the sweet smell of success. Norah Jones, however, has steadfastly followed a much rarer, headier scent since her breakthrough -- that of freedom and artistic expression. On this, her third solo offering, she continues this pursuit, though she is never guilty of experimenting just for the sake of doing so. Not Too Late is the first disc on which Jones wrote all the material herself, and the album retains the warmth and intimacy of her past discs while couching them in a newfound soulfulness -- a tone that's carried by both her writing and her arrangements, which rely more on organ, brass, and other accoutrements than simple piano-bass-drum constructions. Horns figure prominently in the appeal of "Thinking About You," one of many tracks that find Jones getting in touch with her inner Dusty Springfield. That slow-burning smokiness -- redolent of the classic Dusty in Memphis -- is but one of the hues that Jones applies here. She traipses through some brightly colored country tones -- informed, perhaps, by her moonlighting in the hootenanny-friendly Little Willies -- on the playful "Little Room" before taking those homespun chords in a darker direction on "My Dear Country," a surprisingly hard-edged look at the current political landscape. Jones and company get even more musically adventurous, bending the second-line rhythms of the Crescent City-flavored "Sinkin' Soon" into a gnarled shape that would no doubt elicit a knowing smile from Tom Waits. Even when she's at her edgiest, however, Jones guilelessly sprinkles a smidgen of sugar into the mix -- in the form of her warm, welcoming voice, an instrument that makes just about everything go down in the most delightful way. ---- The album is soon out in Japan ![](http://i10.tinypic.com/2d19pvr.jpg) ---- Info on airing of BBC concert UK RADIO 2: Saturday 27 January 2000-2100 BBC ONE: Sunday 28 January 2245-2330 LISTEN AGAIN: Saturday 27 January 2130 - Saturday 03 February 2130 DIGITAL TV: Sunday 28 January 2330 - Saturday 03 February 0400 Press the red button on any BBC TV channel for 30 minutes of edited highlights BROADBAND VIDEO: Sunday 28 January 2330 - Saturday 03 February 0400 30 minutes of edited highlights available on this page ---- From St. Petersburg Times pop music critic: I'm gonna review Not Too Late next week, but I listened this morning, and it's lush, lilting and damn sexy. blogs.tampabay.com/popmusic/2007/01/whats_in_seans__1.html
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Post by anafan on Jan 23, 2007 18:47:53 GMT -5
Canada Promo: www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2007/23/c8630.html Grammy Award Winning Artist Stops by "BreakfastTelevision" for a Live Performance and Interview to be broadcast Across Canada on Citytv Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and A-Channel Barrie/Toronto, London, Ottawa Thursday, February 1st ---------------------- >> TORONTO, Jan. 23 /CNW/ - It's another CHUM Television Exclusive! Grammy Winning Singer/Songwriter Norah Jones stops by CHUM Television's "BT-BreakfastTelevision" and "A-Channel Morning" on Thursday, February 1st for a live performance and interview. In a CHUM Television first, "Live@BT: Norah Jones" will be broadcast on all CHUM Television Morning Shows across Canada. << The broadcast schedule is as follows: ------------------------------------- Citytv Toronto, A-Channel Barrie/Toronto, London, Ottawa 6:00 - 9:00am ET (LIVE) Citytv Winnipeg 7:00 - 10:00am CT Citytv Edmonton, Calgary 6:00 - 10:00am MT Citytv Vancouver 5:30 - 9:00am PT >> In front of a live studio audience, Norah Jones will perform at the CHUM TV Building in downtown Toronto. "BT Toronto" and "Star! Daily" Co-Host Dina Pugliese will chat with Norah about her highly anticipated third studio album "Not Too Late", her musical influences and her hopes for her first studio album in two years. Blending jazz, country, blues and folk, the 27-year-old burst upon the pop music world five years ago. Now, this multi-Grammy winner with two multi-platinum releases, "Come Away With Me" (2002) and "Feels Like Home" (2004) has established herself as a star destined for a long career. Her latest release "Not Too Late" displays a self-assured maturity while still evoking her signature heartfelt vocals and incredible musicianship. "Not Too Late" will be available in stores on Tuesday, January 30th. Stay tuned to "BT Toronto" to find out how you can win tickets to be a part of the "Live@BT: Norah Jones" audience! Additional interviews with Norah Jones will be featured on: ----------------------------------------------------------- "CityNews" / CP24 ----------------- Thursday, February 1st Norah Jones talks to "CityNews" about her latest album, "Not Too Late" airing on "CityNews at 6" and repeated on CP24 @ 7:00pm ET. STAR! - "Star! Daily" --------------------- Thursday, February 1st at 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT "Star! Daily" goes one-on-one with Norah Jones. Viewers can watch repeat broadcasts on A-Channel @ 7:30pm ET/ 4:00pm PT and Citytv @ 11:35pm ET/6:30pm CT/11:30pm MT/6:00pm PT. A-Channel/CP24 - "Star! Daily" Entertainment Updates ---------------------------------------------------- Thursday, February 1st Highlights from the "CityNews" chat with Norah Jones will air on the "Star! Daily" Entertainment Updates on "A-Channel News at 6" ,"A-Channel News at 5" and CP24. Norah Jones on MuchMoreMusic's "The Loop" ----------------------------------------- "The Loop's" Traci Melchor sits down with Norah Jones for the latest on her third studio album, "Not Too Late". Catch the full length interview on "The LoopWeekend", Saturday, February 3rd at 1:00pm ET and Sunday, February 4th @ 11:00pm ET.
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Post by babyboylrtm on Jan 23, 2007 19:04:08 GMT -5
I adore "Wish I Could". It's my favorite so far.
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Post by Gray. on Jan 23, 2007 19:12:03 GMT -5
When she's not all dolled up for a photoshoot, she should never step outside her house. ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png)
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Post by Lowe on Jan 23, 2007 22:22:22 GMT -5
I think Ima get this album. I really like Until The End
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Post by anafan on Jan 23, 2007 22:34:55 GMT -5
Uncut magazine review 4 stars out of 5
Come Away With Me, Norah Jones’ landmark 2002 debut, stands as this decade’s Tapestry. Although she wrote very little of the album, the material was painstakingly designed for her amber alto and unhurried delivery. The further refinements of 2004’s Feels Like Home suggested that Jones could continue spinning out variations on the winning formula ad infinitum, occupying her own cosy corner of the mainstream. Instead, she’s chosen to go deeper and subtler, and while the move proves to be less radical than, say, Lindsey Buckingham’s bungee jump from Rumours to Tusk, it’s still a bold one.
Paring the arrangements down to the bone, Jones and her bassist/boyfriend Lee Alexander, who produced, fashion these 13 songs, all written or co-written by the artist, with a jeweller’s delicate precision. In contrast to the earlier LPs, the arrangements on Not Too Late are keyed not to mood but to subject matter. Jones no longer seems interested in crafting soft-pop confections in the manner of her hits. Rather, she deals with both her emotional state (which appears for the most part to be A-OK) and the state of the world she’s living in (which is anything but).
The album sets its parallel agendas on the opening track, “Wish I Could”, in which the narrator finds herself unable to step into the watering hole she once frequented with her ex-lover. Pretty standard so far. Then comes the first narrative wrinkle, as a female acquaintance standing in the doorway beckons her. Jones sings, “She says love in the time of war is not fair/He was my man but they didn’t care,” the couplet yanking the song into a the context of present-day unease. Jones and co-writer Alexander have one more card to play, as they reveal, in an O’Henry-like twist, that both women are aching for the same man. The pithy narrative plays out over a minimalist ensemble consisting of nothing more than a plunked acoustic guitar and a pair of cellos.
Having immediately established that this LP is not designed for dinner parties, Jones and her henchmen then head straight to Tom Waits territory. The refracted sea shanty “Sinkin’ Soon” has an “end of the world as we know it” text. But it is presented with the most whimsical of metaphors – an oyster cracker on the stew, a wheel of cheese in the sky – as Jones gives free reign to her inner Billie Holiday, at moments nearly fraying the crushed velvet of her voice. A tipsy horn section, featuring muted trombone, provide just the right shading.
The only song containing a conventional hook is “Thinkin’ About You”, the first single, almost by default. Otherwise, one surprise follows another, most strikingly with the playfully sexy intimacy of “Little Room” and the Newman-esque sociopolitical tableau of “My Sweet Country”, which stands as a contender for the most reasonable protest song ever penned.
What’s especially daring about Not Too Late is the degree to which Jones and Alexander trust their songs and her languorous voice to hold the listener’s interest. The album whispers along with no pace or dynamics to speak of, and yet the effect is beguiling, as the tonalities of this rigorously subdued form of chamber pop – with pedal steel, bowed bass, Hammond B-3, Wurlitzer piano, Mellotron, brass and reeds providing the watercolour hues – blend with the finely nuanced material to create something altogether fresh. And just like that, Jones transforms herself into the gentlest of cutting-edge artists.
Dose.ca Review 4 stars out of 5
Norah Jones, Not Too Late (Blue Note/EMI)
The Deal: Sometimes, it’s easy to forget what actual singing sounds like. That’s not a blatant diss towards Pro Tools or anything. Actually, the synthesized, robotics of today’s singers is quite comforting – it lets you know that the future is now. But Norah Jones and her stripped vocal and musical style hearken back to a past time – back when music was allowed to emote and when instruments were played by actual, real, live humans with blood and guts and stuff. The Grammy connoisseur’s third album continues her exploration of pop, soul, folk and country in a manner that hasn’t been done since Nina Simone was rightfully cursing out audiences who dared to talk during any one of her rapt performances. Like her predecessor — with whom she shares a plaintive, smoky vocal style — Jones’ music is without pretension or any hints of overt experimentation. Her lyrics are earnest expressions of everyday life — “Annie is standing in the door / With a look on her face I can’t ignore / She tells me that her heart is sore / And pulls me in” (“Wish I Could”) – and they hover over simple arrangements that comprise nothing more than a piano, bass, guitar, occasional horns and strings, and a percussion section. The effect as a whole is an equable meditation on life and love and a testament to the enduring allure of music without ornamentation.
Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5
Greatness thrust upon her by Come Away With Me's Grammy sweep, Norah Jones maintained her modesty at all costs on 2004's Feels Like Home, with results less jazzy but duller -- even duller, some would say. On the mildly adventurous Not Too Late, she writes or co-writes every song -- thirteen in all, five more than on the first two albums combined. Although she may never hit upon a hook to equal Jesse Harris' on "Don't Know Why," she's quirkier lyrically than any of her helpmates. And she remains pop's nicest superstar nevertheless.
No matter the writer, Jones has always favored a verbal subtlety many would account bland: "When I saw the break of day/I wished that I could fly away." This effect is magnified by the thoughtful, sweetly rounded melancholy of the voice people love. So you have to concentrate to follow the twists of Not Too Late's opening "Wish I Could" -- Norah's friend misses (mourns?) an Iraq-bound guy she doesn't know Norah also had a thing with. And though the stark lyric "on Election Day" from "My Dear Country" will catch you short every time, you probably won't notice Jones calling an unnamed but unmistakable George W. Bush "the one we hate" just before.
These political moments contextualize Jones' calm, but lest her peace-at-all-costs legions fret, they're hardly the norm: "Thinking About You," prereleased as a download, returns to the soldier in "Wish I Could" only if you read a whole lot into "sail across the ocean waters." Nor does the music assert itself. The second-line touches on the possible Katrina song "Sinkin' Soon" and the cellos and bowed bass on the busker tribute "Broken" are notable because they're noticeable. In general, the organs and cellos and even horns Jones enlists blend into what must now be deemed an all-too-soothing formula. The fans who adore her take this formula as proof of her kindness, and they're probably right. The rest of us wonder who else she hates.
ROBERT CHRISTGAU
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Post by anafan on Jan 24, 2007 0:31:33 GMT -5
Pics from Paris concert 1/20 ![](http://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/ev/img/lavige-norah.jpg) ![](http://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/ev/img/sesame.jpg) ![](http://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/ev/img/sesame2.jpg) ![](http://image.radio-france.fr/_media/img205.jpg) ![](http://image.radio-france.fr/_media/img206.jpg) ![](http://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/ev/img/norah_face.jpg) Norah will be on Jay Leno Feb. 7th: 01.26 Paris concert being broadcast in France 01.27 Schlag den Raab Germany 01.27 Norah Jones Live & Exclusive is on Radio 2 01.28 BBC 1 Sessions - Norah Jones is on BBC 1 01.29 Today Show 02.01 Canada promo 02.07 Jay Leno 02.10 SWR3 "Latenight" Germany 03.03 Wetten, dass..? Germany March - Sanremo Italy March - Netherlands promo March - Japan promo
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 24, 2007 14:20:31 GMT -5
Can a Mod change the title, please?
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Next Tuesday, the games begin with the release of Norah Jones' eagerly anticipated third album for Blue Note, Not Too Late, with the label shipping out some 1.7 million copies.
1.7 million? Wow.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 24, 2007 16:27:17 GMT -5
How Norah's last album debuted:
02/28/04 FEELS LIKE HOME NORAH JONES 1,020,000 *NEW*
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Post by M 123 on Jan 24, 2007 18:25:52 GMT -5
ill fucking die to hear that!!! ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0270.gif)
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Post by Damage on Jan 24, 2007 22:57:41 GMT -5
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Post by oscillations. on Jan 25, 2007 13:09:57 GMT -5
I like her song. ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png) I never thought I'd say that.
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Post by anafan on Jan 25, 2007 13:43:42 GMT -5
Rod Stewart, Norah Jones To Headline Jazz Fest NEW ORLEANS -- Tickets go on sale Thursday for the 2007 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The headline performers include Rod Stewart, Norah Jones and Brad Paisley and New Orleans favorites like Irma Thomas, Dr. John and Allen Toussaint. The festival, spanning two weekends in April and May, will feature hundreds of the city's most beloved musicians and a host of national headliners at the New Orleans Fair Grounds, a horse racing track that flooded and was seriously damaged by Hurricane Katrina. www.wapt.com/news/10843476/detail.html?rss=jac&psp=news----- Come Away With Me climbs 12-10 this week on Billboard Pop Catalog chart. Come Away With Me climbs 77-48 on the Austrian album chart this week. Feels Like Home is #1 on the Belgium midprice chart, Come Away With Me is #12. Feels Like Home is #10 on the France midprice chart, Come Away With Me is #15.
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Post by anafan on Jan 25, 2007 21:55:26 GMT -5
LA Daily News Review 3 stars out of 4 NORAH JONES: "Not Too Late" By Fred Shuster, Music Critic Article Last Updated: 01/25/2007 06:17:12 PM PST Music critics, like newborns, love falling asleep to the safe hum of the clothes dryer or washing machine. Jones' warm, lulling voice and lint-free arrangements have the same sweet effect. And for that reason alone, her third album of songs tinged with pop, soul, folk and country elements is a useful addition to any crib, workplace or five-buck-a-latté café. That's not to say Norah's a snorah. While much of the 13-track effort is formulaic, some numbers rise above the expanse of mildness. On the uncharacteristically dark, well-crafted "The Sun Doesn't Like You," for instance, Jones' plaintive, smoky voice puts across lyrics like, "We can build a fire/In the open field past the razor wire/Sneak by the dogs when they go to sleep." Which makes you wonder if Norah has set up camp in Trench Town. The opening track, "Wish I Could," is another melodic gem, this time utilizing two cellos and acoustic guitar. That and other moments here recall a time before computers ruled the earth, when people played real instruments to create music that was allowed to be imperfect. And you don't see that too often at the top of the charts. www.dailynews.com/cdreviews/ci_5088722
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Post by musicmania001 on Jan 25, 2007 23:47:04 GMT -5
Yeah for Norah!!!!!
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