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Sunday's best Monday's worst. Here is Mr B's Sunday Chill Session on Monday. Enjoy.. King Tubby, Get Up and Dub Download here (Right Click, Save As). Madeleine Peyroux, Between The Bars (Elliott Smith Cover) Download here (Right Click, Save As). Irene Scruggs, Borrowed Love Download here (Right Click, Save As). Stray, Pushed Download here (Right Click, Save As). Deepchord, Neon [...]
As the kick off to the 2013 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, acclaimed jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux preformed a special set to a packed audience at the Kimmel Center this afternoon. Check out the photo gallery above and the set list below. For more information about PIFA, click here. Setlist Take These Chains From ... Continue reading

Madeleine Peyroux - Guilty (Randy Newman cover)

Madeleine Peyroux - Desperados Under The Eaves (Warren Zevon cover)
Peyroux's introverted nature comes across through her prayer like intonations. She's tender and bashful, not coy. She doesn't wink. Most critics cite Tony Bennett's rendition of Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart" as the first time country-western music and popular jazz met together on smooth ground during the postwar era. A decade later Ray Charles took it a giant step further on Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music. This album today is considered one of the greatest and most influential records of all time. The music made a tremendous impact on present day producer...
Madeleine Peyroux: [ Bird on the Wire ] Charles Bukowski
Madeleine Peyroux is the most recognizable voice in contemporary jazz vocals. It is also easy commentary to say that this voice sounds like it belongs more to the first half of the 20th century than the 21st. However, her success is built not just on this voice, but on her impeccable phrasing, succinct backing backing band, and uncanny ability to recognize a song outside of the boundaries of her genre and then successfully reallocate it into her language. Finally, it is this last performance talent that makes Peyroux quintessentially 21st century. Her next album, The Blue Room, is [...]
MUSIC NEWS- Madeleine Peyroux's new album The Blue Room has been revealed for a March 5th release, from Decca Records. The Blue Room sees Madeleine and longtime collaborator / legendary producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock), re-examine Ray Charles'...

MADELEINE PEYROUX ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM THE BLUE ROOM, OUT MARCH 5TH VIDEO FOR FIRST SINGLE CHANGING ALL THOSE THINGS NOW ONLINE CONFIRMED WORLD TOUR INCLUDES TWO NIGHTS AT LINCOLN CENTER IN NYC Decca Records is proud to announce the release of Madeleine Peyroux 's new album The Blue Room . Set for a March 5, 2013 release, The Blue Room sees Madeleine and longtime collaborator / legendary producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, [...]
Jazz and blues songstress Madeleine Peyroux covers Buddy Holly. On March 5th, Decca Records will release The Blue Room by the jazz and blues songstress Madeleine Peyroux . The album was produced by Larry Klein and re-examines Ray Charles' classic Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music. Madeleine released the [...]
Acclaimed pop, folk and jazz songstress Madeleine Peyroux interprets classics from the Ray Charles "country" songbook as well as reimagining a few of her own favorite covers on The Blue Room , her sixth studio album arriving March 19 via Decca. Produced by Peyroux studio veteran Larry Klein with lush string arrangements by Vince Mendoza, The Blue Room resurrects tracks from Charles' groundbreaking 1962 album The Modern Sounds of Country and Western Music, a 50-year-old creative hybrid of country and orchestrated jazz that stands as one of the most [...]
Supergroup Atoms For Peace—Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco—will finally release its debut studio album, Amok, via XL on February 26 … Nonesuch has signed Devendra Banhart and will issue new album Mala this spring. Supporting festival and tour dates are rumored to be in the works … Harper Simon’s sophomore LP, Division [...]

Madeleine Peyroux - Changing All Those Changes (Buddy Holly cover)
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Here again is every newly announced show for the week! We have offerings from the big-arena rock show variety all the way down to the hole-in-the-wall club type; music fans of all shape and size ... Continue reading "Pierced Arrows, 311, Madeleine Peyroux and More in This Week's New Show Announcements" >

Elliott Smith wrote some of the prettiest pop songs ever written. Of course, writing a pretty pop song isn't the same thing as writing an upbeat pop song. "Between the Bars" is a perfect example. The melody is touchingly beautiful and unthreateningly gentle. The lyrics, however, are undeniably troubled. Although the song could double as an unorthodox love song (a popular interpretation of the track), the most likely read is that it's about the threat of impending alcoholism. As the track opens, Smith sings ruefully about "the potential you'll be, but you'll never see / the promises you'll only make." [...]