1. walkin' after midnight ( Don Hecht / Alan Block )
2. hey sweet man ( Madeleine Peyroux )
3. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter ( Joseph Young / Fred Ahlert )
4. (getting some) fun out of life ( Joseph Burke / Edgar Leslie )
5. la vie en rose ( Louiguy / Edith Piaf )
6. always a use ( Madeleine Peyroux )
7. a prayer ( Euston Jones )
8. muddy water ( Peter DeRose / Harry Richman / Joe Trent )
9. was i ? ( Chick Endor, Charlie Farrell )
10. dreamland ( Madeleine Peyroux )
11. reckless blues ( Bessie Smith / Jack Gee )
12. lovesick blues ( Bessie Smith, Irving Mills, Cliff Friend )

Madeleine Peyroux ( vocals, guitar )
James Carter ( tenor saxophone, bass clarinet )
Marcus Printup ( trumpet )
Regina Carter ( violin )
Charlie Giordano ( Hammond B3 organ, harmonium, electric guitar, Harpsichord, accordion, Mellotron )
Cyrus Chestnut ( Piano )
Marc Ribot ( dobro, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo )
Vernon Reid ( electric guitar )
Larry Saltzman ( electric guitar )
Greg Cohen ( bass )
Steve Kirby ( bass )
Kenny Wollison ( drums & percussion )
Leon Parker ( drums, cymbal )

I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter


"Hey Manager this singer is wonderful! who is she?","She is the singer name Madeleine Peyroux","From name is she the European singer? cause she sings La Vie En Rose, firstable I thought she is Billie Holiday, This conversation when for the first time listen about her CD at Kitijyoji's "SCRATCH" where I am always going coffee house, is the thing. Promptly, purchasing this CD, when I tries inspecting, she is the Georgian origin and the New York being brought up, but she is the pure American white woman who raises in French's mother who divorces. With 1974 origin, as for producing this first album "dreamland" in 1996, she has left the trace of the girl with merely 22 years old considered as the photograph inside the jacket. Nevertheless, the voice as for feeling the young white woman it is something which cannot be thought. Personally, make lyrics, she handles composition, does also the repelling singing of the guitar, she is the owner of very talent. Although being the white, orthodox style song of blues feeling closely resembles the Billie Holiday of young day, but when you see from selection of music, going back, she is connected to also Bessie Smith. The feeling that does the singer of genuine jewel appeared from mecca America of jazz. The thing and the excited where her name disk appears successively even from now on it does. Because herself comment is written inside the jacket, it introduces here.

"For some a singer sings her love
For some she sings her youth
For others still she's like a dove
Elated in her truth.

But a singer sings us to the world
A world as yet divided,
And lonely, naked, bare and bold,
She brings us deep inside it."

-Madeleine Peyroux



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