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." [...]
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Revered jazz-folk singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux will play the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Tuesday, November 8th. Peyroux is touring her fifth album Standing on the Rooftop which was released earlier this year, but is perhaps best known for Careless Love from 2004. 'Dance Me To The End Of Love' (Leonard Cohen cover) Bill Wyman plays on Standing on the Rooftop and co-wrote 'The Kind You Can't Afford', a funk-infused bluesy track. Tickets are priced at €25 and €35, available [...]
"My mother performed on this same stage in 1964. She said at the time there were people picketing outside the theater against George Wallace. I saw some folks picketing outside today, but I don't think it's against me." As Madeleine Peyroux shared this story to a mostly passive audience at the Wisconsin Union Theater last Wednesday, it only seemed to solidify the idea of how big a stage Wisconsin has been on in front of the world this past year. I find it interesting to witness these kinds of moments, show after show, as national acts move across [...]
When Madeleine Peyroux makes a stop in Madison on Wednesday, she will be touring in support of her latest album Standing on the Rooftop , a record that appears to have Peyroux shedding the dusty jazz singer crooner most are familiar with for a bolder and somewhat experimental sound. At times a little funky, it still has the same careful and delicate singing Peyroux has always been known for. The Georgia-born singer moved to Europe when she was 13 and spent her teenage years busking in Paris. Aside from sporadic appearances at jazz festivals, as well as [...]
Genre-hopping tunes from an artist who still sounds for all the world like an odd modern clone of Billie Holiday. Madeleine Peyroux's 1996 debut, Dreamland was a disc you might have heard at plenty of hummus-and-pita chit-chat parties set in well-decorated apartments in a nice part of town. It wasn't jazz, but it was jazz-ish. It might have been a post-modern blend of country and blues and Billie Holiday, or it might have just been a mess. But your smarter friends were spinning it. Peyroux herself was an enigma. She was 22 but she sounded...
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While Norah Jones may have gotten all the notoriety for helping to revive the tradition of female jazz-influenced vocalists in the early aughts, some credit should also be paid to Madeleine Peyroux , whose debut album Dreamland came out six years prior. Peyroux, whose vocal style has justly garnered comparisons to Billie Holiday, began singing professionally as a teenager, after she moved to Paris with her mother and discovered the street musicians in the city's Latin Corner, spending several years touring throughout Europe singing jazz standards as a member of The Lost Wandering Blues & Jazz Band. [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Video , New Music , Exclusive Decca Like the ghost of Billie Holiday reincarnated in a folk femme fatale, Madeleine Peyroux channels the the beginnings of jazz through a contemporary sound. The singer's latest album, 'Standin' on the Rooftop,' showcases her vocal talents over a more acoustic sound. The live recording of 'The Things I've Seen Today' below features Peyroux [...]
Madeleine Peyroux - The Things I've Seen Today
When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Madeleine Peyroux takes on Elliott Smith's "Between The Bars." MAGNET's Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! Elliott Smith's "Between The Bars" is both a quiet testament to the ability of love to save us from ourselves and a crushing [...]
Madeleine Peyroux - The Kind You Can't Afford
courtesy of Madeleine Peyroux As Madeleine Peyroux describes in her EPK video, Standing on the Rooftop was her personal moment when she looked back in life and her mind thought of a poem which began, "Standing on the rooftop and the sun is coming up and all the ones I care for are doing fine..." and so began a song out of this complete thought, and to follow an "an album that was very postive" which she wrote mostly while [...]
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