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Dreamland

by: Madeleine Peyroux

Release Date April 04, 2005
I have all three of Madeleine Peyroux's albums now having recently purchased this beauty. All through the album, you can tell the quality and the feeling in her vocal performance. I find it difficult to believe now that it took 8 years before Madeleine Peyroux became a household name with her second album "Careless Love" and not this one. Never mind. This is still a wonderful album.

This album is a launching pad for Madeleine Peyroux to launch from. Her singing style is very similar to that of Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith, the jazz and blues divas of their time. It hits off with "Walking After Midnight" and finishes off with a blues-fuelled "Lovesick Blues". The tracks inbetween are also of distinction including "Dreamland", ... Read More:

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Careless Love

by: Madeleine Peyroux

Release Date October 25, 2004
If you like the voices of Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald at their melancholy best then you'll like this CD.

Madeleine Peyroux has the reputation for being an offbeat and thoughtful character. Maybe because she takes her art so seriously. Strange fruit that is essentially beautiful.

CD-Charts Position 3
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Got You on My Mind

by: William Galison & Madeleine Peyroux feat Carly Simon

Release Date September 07, 2004
This has to be one of my favourite albums that I own. I wasnt a huge fan of her Careless Love album - contraversial statement I know :-)

Maddy has a fantastic voice, slightly more blusey on this album. Couple with the brilliant harmonica player William Gailson. This album is quite different from her others, but well worth the listen.

Favourite tracks are the Scorpian and the Frog and Heaven Help us all.

Brilliant!!

CD-Charts Position 4
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Half The Perfect World

by: Madeleine Peyroux

Release Date October 30, 2006
Peyroux sounds uncannily like Billie Holiday when she sings - something I'm sure she isn't deliberately setting out to do - but the similarities wander in throughout this lovely album. This is one of those rare recordings where the choice of songs, the voice and the musical arrangements all come together to produce something that sounds under-stated, and it's a joy from beginning to end. Cover versions and original songs go together really well here - it's the sort of CD you can slip on late in the evening for a chill out without the mood being spoiled half-way through an upbeat, raunchy number that spoils the ambience. Seriously good music. Beautifully produced, wonderfully sung.

CD-Charts Position 5
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Piece By Piece

by: Katie Melua

Release Date September 26, 2005
I haven't come on here to criticise Katie Melua.I recently heard a splendid version of her's covering Leonard Cohen's ' In My Secret Life ' off one of her other albums.
I have eclectic tastes in music and sometimes I don't mind this type of stuff.She can certainly deliver a song and she has quite a distinctive voice.OK so we all know about Mike Batt but don't let that put you off buying this.This album is definately not taxing on the brain and is without a doubt easy on the ear but sometimes that is just what is required.' 9 Million Bicycles..' is such a catchy tune.Katie Melua is alright with me.