Acclaimed 2009 Gem is Jazz Chanteuse's First Album of Originals Extraordinary Sound Transports Listeners to a Small Coffeehouse: You Need to Hear This on Vinyl Having proven several times over that she's among the premier vocal jazz singers on the planet with Half the Perfect World and Careless Love-both available as limited-edition 180-gram LPs from Mobile Fidelity-Madeleine Peyroux makes her mark as a songwriter on the exquisite Bare Bones, her first album of originals. A thematic record that begins with wariness, moves to loss, builds to acceptance, and finishes with hope, the critically acclaimed set is Peyroux's most soul-baring effort.
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