Norah Jones - 2020 Home Concert Series, New York City - 2020-03-26 to 2020-04-23 - Early Sessions

Norah Jones
2020 Home Concert Series, New York, NY
Early Sessions, 2020-03-26 to 2020-04-23
Webcast recordings of live solo home performances
Mp3 @ 320 kbps

Continuing with recent performances from singer-songwriter Norah Jones, here's something a bit different. During the lockdown phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in Spring 2020, Norah began  a regular series of short very informal concerts from her home (just her and piano or guitar) and making them available on Youtube. Many other artists also did this sort of thing to help themselves and others get through the pandemic and lack of live music performances. I previously posted a compilation of songs Jackson Browne recorded from home from like this. However, Norah took this approach to another level. She regularly posted (every week or so) a video of intimate solo performances (usually containing four different songs each time, 15-20 minutes of music), just her at her piano at home (or sometimes with guitar instead), and she continued this throughout the entire rest of the year (last one posted on Christmas Eve 2020). Over the course of the year, this amounted to a total of over 10 hrs of music, and more than 170 songs performed, quite a monumental undertaking. Our blogger friend Paul over at Albums That Should Exist dutifully made audio recordings of each of her home concert videos (as he also did for several other artists making home concert videos) and compiled them into a series of 14 'albums' each containing about 45 minutes of music from these shows. Songs performed range from all throughout her career, but as intimate informal solo versions, as well as numerous covers of songs not performed anywhere else, including songs she grew up playing, some of her personal favorites, and her family's favorites. It presents a very interesting and unique look into her music and life. Now, it would be way too much for me to post this whole series here (but you can get all of them at albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com if you like). For this blog, I have compiled the first several performances (March to April 2020) into one concert-length set (about 80 minutes), and then I have another concluding set (also about 80 Minutes)  taken from the final series of shows (From October to December 2020). This should give a broad range of songs and a good sense of what she did, without trying to include everything. So, here is the first set, covering the Early sessions (From 03/26 to 4/23 2020). Again, huge thanks to Norah for putting these shows out there for all to enjoy, and thanks to Paul for recording these and making them available. It is a wonderful depiction of Norah as an artist and person, as well as documentation of the times we were living and the only way to hear new 'almost live' music throughout 2020. The set of Later sessions will follow shortly.

Early Sessions - 03-26 to 04-23
Tracklist:
01. talk
02. Turn Me On
03. talk
04. Joey
05. talk
06. I'm Alive
07. talk
08. Humble Me
09. Come Away with Me
10. talk
11. Lucky
12. talk
13. I Remember Clifford [Instrumental]
14. talk
15. Lonestar
16. That’s the Way that the World Goes Round
17. talk
18. Waiting
19. Travelin' On
20. talk
21. Painter Song
22. Long Way Home
23. talk
24. How I Weep
25. talk
26. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
27. The Long Day Is Over
28. Wake Me Up
29. talk
30. Angel Dream
31. talk
32. It Was You
33. talk
34. Sunrise

Tracks 1-8, Home Concert - 2020-03-26
Tracks 9-15, Home Concert - 2020-04-02
Tracks 16-21, Home Concert - 2020-04-11
Tracks 22-27, Home Concert - 2020-04-17
Tracks 28-34, Home Concert - 2020-04-23

Norah Jones_2020 Home Concerts_Early Sessions.rar

'Album' Picture taken from Albums That Should Exist home concert series artwork (taken from video). Thanks again, Paul.