Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Norah Jones - 2012-04-20 - Studio 105 Maison de la Radio, Paris, France

Norah Jones

2012-04-20
Studio 105 Maison de la radio, Paris, France
FM broadcast recording, very good quality
Available in both Lossless (FLAC) and Mp3 (320 kbps) versions

Picking up where we left off with the wonderful singer-songwriter-musician Norah Jones: After her 2007 album, Not Too Late, Norah continued to expand and develop her sound and style, with more personal, emotional songs and more soul and rock influences on her next album, The Fall (2009). Around this time, Norah also collaborated with many other artists on various projects. A compilation album of some of these other artist collaborations, ...Featuring Norah Jones was released in 2010, and included tracks with Foo Fighters, Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, and many others. Her country band, The Little Willies released their second album, For the Good Times in 2011. After working with producer Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) on his album Rome (2011), Norah and Danger Mouse started working together on her next album, Little Broken Hearts (2012), which was basically a break-up album filled with raw, emotional songs and stark, electronic-embellished  accompaniment, further departing from Jones' familiar sound, different from anything done previously. Jones then collaborated with Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day) on an album of duets on Everly Brothers songs titled Foreverly (2013), and her alt-country trio (with Sasha Jobson and Catherine Popper), Puss n Boots released their first full album, No Fools, No Fun in 2014. So, a very busy time for Norah. The show featured today is from early in her 2012 tour in support of Little Broken Hearts, where she plays the entire album in sequence (first 12 songs played) to start the show. And this was actually before the album had officially released, so these were all brand new songs to the audience, never heard before. After the new album, Norah plays some more familiar songs and hits. So this gives a good update of the changes in her songs at this time, as well as some classics. This is an FM radio broadcast from France, with very good sound, but does have a French DJ translating Norah's comments between songs, but fortunately does not intrude much on the actual songs.

Tracklist:
01. Good Morning
02. Say Goodbye
03. Little Broken Hearts
04. She's 22
05. Take It Back
06. After The Fall
07. Four Broken Hearts
08. Travelin' On
09. Out On The Road
10. Happy Pills
11. Miriam
12. All A Dream

13. Nearness of You
14. Don't Know Why
15. Waiting
16. Sunrise
17. Chasing Pirates
18. Bessie Smith (for Levon Helm)
19. Come away with me
20. Black
21. Stuck
22. outro (talks and audience)

Tracks 1-12; Complete album Little Broken Hearts, start to finish. 
 

Norah Jones - vocals, piano, guitar
Jason Roberts - guitar, backing vocals
Josh Lattanzi - bass, backing vocals
Pete Remm - keyboards, piano
Greg Wieczorek - drums, backing vocals

FLAC - Norah Jones_2012-04-20_Paris-FM_FLAC.rar

mp3 - Norah Jones_2012-04-20_Paris-FM_mp3.rar

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2 comments:

  1. Hi, I see that this is no longer available. Please could I request a re-up? Thanks!

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  2. fromage,
    Sorry it's taken so long to get these files back up (I had to find a new fileshare service), but these Norah Jones FLAC files are now updated and working again (hopefully). I'm trying out a different service now, so I hope this one works out.

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