With her third album,
Half the Perfect World, Madeleine Peyroux steps further into the process of finding a voice and musical style to call her own. Four of these songs are ones she wrote herself, and her covers of other songs are done in a unique style. The opening track, "I'm All Right," is one of her own compositions she co-wrote with Larry Klein and Steely Dan’s Walter Becker, gets the album off to a charming and rousing start. The title track, from a Leonard Cohen/Anjani Thomas song, is stripped down to a lilting Latin rhythm and she includes a duet with k.d. lang to cover Joni Mitchell's "River." The amazon.com reviewer says, "Fans of Norah Jones (whose collaborator Jesse Harris cowrote three of the songs) should gobble up this album, but Peyroux is no mere imitator: She's her own, very real thing."
CD released September 12, 2006.
Articles, reviews, and interviews:
All About Jazz review
All Music review
Track List:
1. I'm All Right
2. The Summer Wind
3. Blue Alert
4. Everybody's Talkin'
5. River (duet featuring k.d. lang)
6. A Little Bit
7. Once in a While
8. (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night
9. Half the Perfect World
10. La Javanaise
11. California Rain
12. Smile
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