- "But for the lovers, their arms
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- Round the griefs of the ages…"
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- - Dylan Thomas
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- Dedicated to Poets, writers of these songs, memorable people of memorable times such as these, wherever you are~
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- Many thanks to Larry Klein, Yves Beauvais, Dan Fitzgerald, Cynthia Herbst, Jeff Greenberg, all precious family and friends, far and near, old and new, Joey, Seamus, Brenna, Madeleine, Morgan and Sean, the myriad earnest, soulful musicians, the dwellers of the City of New York, and to those enjoying life at every turn, for making this possible. ~Madeleine Peyroux
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- "With the release of her long awaited follow-up album, Careless Love, Peyroux's potential as an artist is truly realized. Her smoky voice and knowing delivery make each song her own, whether she's singing vintage tunes by W.C. Handy and Hank Williams, or contemporary songs by Leonard Cohen and Elliott Smith. Producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin) weaves strands of acoustic blues, country ballads, classic jazz, torch songs and pop into a vibrant fabric that is both timeless and thoroughly up to date, with Peyroux's arresting vocals always front and center."
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- APPEARING ON THE ALBUM:
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- Madeleine Peyroux - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
- Dean Parks - Guitars
- Larry Goldings - Piano, Wurlitzer Piano, Estey, Hammond Organ, Celeste
- David Piltch - Bass
- Jay Bellerose - Drums and Percussion
- Lee Thornburg - Trumpet on "This Is Heaven to Me" And "No More"
- Scott Amendola - Brushes on "I'll Look Around"
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- "She Makes Both Joy and Heartbreak Sound so Good"
- from Associated Content
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- "Peyroux is shockingly good ..."
- By Mark Runyon for PM Media Review (2/24/2005)
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- "..."Careless Love" is like a musical marriage."
- WBUR.org - Boston
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- "No false emotion: Madeleine Peyroux returns to interpret the greats"
- By Alan Lewis (5/27/2005) for the Vermont Guardian
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- "Third album by Lady Day devotee from Athens, Georgia"
- by Roy Carr for Uncut (issue 95) (thanks to Martin Shori)
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- "Norah Jones and Jane Monheit may have spawned a cutesy genre of jazz-lite chirping, but it's one that Peyroux neatly sidesteps. Here, less is definitely more. Accompanied by piano, guitar, string bass, lightly brushed snare drum and occasional gospel organ, Careless Love has the same live-in-the-studio ambience that made Peggy Lee's Black Coffee a benchmark album. An interpretive artist as opposed to a nothing-to-say singer-songwriter, Peyroux avoids the overworked wine bar songbook, bringing new sensibilities to Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me To The End Of Love" and Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go"."
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- "...Peyroux is ten times the singer that Jones is..."
- by T.J. Simon for The Music Box (March 2005, Volume 12, #3)
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- "...this is Madeleine Peyroux."
- By Frankie Hagan (12/2004) for The Port Halcyon Daily Review
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- "... this record evokes the restless after-hours mood of strolling on the streets of Paris..."
- By David Chiu for NewsBeats
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- "Im Namen Der Herrn. Mit Madleine Peyroux aufersteht Billie Holiday. (in German)"
- By Peter Rüedi for Die WeltWoche
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- "Young Lady Sings the Blues "
- by David Skinner (2/25/2005) for The Daily Standard
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- "The music that keeps us going ..."
- Vail Trail Issue Thursday, February 24, 2005
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- "Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love: The sweet vocals of Peyroux graced the Vilar Center a few weeks ago and if you missed her live, it's worth checking out her newest album. It's taken Peyroux eight years to follow-up her debut album, Dreamland, and it was well worth the wait. Many people have compared her sound to Billie Holiday and we tend to agree. Either way, she moves seamlessly between tunes by W.C. Handy and Hank Williams to more contemporary songs by Leonard Cohen and Elliott Smith."
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- "...then there are born jazz singers... "
- Ed Bumgardner (2/24/2005) for Relish Now!
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- "The singer who disappeared. After 8 years, Madeleine Peyroux returns with 'Careless Love'"
- By Todd Leopold (1/12/2005), CNN
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- "... this shy-looking American singer and guitarist has already being trumpeted as the find of 2005. "
- By Mark Hudson for telegraph.co.uk (2/7/2005)
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- "... Some '04 standouts overlooked by Grammy"
- By Dan Gilgoff from Grammy Forgot, Diversions from USNews.com (2/11/2005 issue)
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- "Madeleine Peyroux, "Careless Love" (Rounder) With pipes reminiscent of Billie Holiday, Peyroux lollygags behind the beat, croons in French, and pulls off breezy jazz treatments of works by songsters as diverse as W. C. Handy and Elliott Smith. "This should have been in Grammy's contemporary jazz category," says Susan Castle, music programmer for KGSR in Austin, where the album topped the station's year-end listener poll."
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- "... Music she danced to during our photo shoot: Madeleine Peyroux's Careless Love CD. "
- Hollywood's Hottest, by Nancy Griffin, AARP Magazine, March & April 2005
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- "... Music for adults "
- By Greg Kot, excerpted from Chicago Tribune 1/23/2005
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- "In recent weeks, "Careless Love" (Rounder), a record on an independent label by a sophisticated pop-jazz vocalist named Madeleine Peyroux, has quietly edged past 100,000 sales with almost no radio airplay. It's become an out-of-left-field hit in cafes, wine bars and spas, where its smoky ambience suits the mostly post-college-age clientele.
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- "People who have heard the record in these places have had an immediate reaction: Who is that? Where can I get that?" says Paul Foley, general manager of marketing for Peyroux's label, Rounder Records. "We're looking for an upper-demographic audience that is not being served currently by the record industry's marketing schemes."
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- "Why it took vocalist Madeleine Peyroux eight year ... "
- Thom Jurek (12/18/2004) for All Music Guide
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- "The chanteuse as a style has ... [Real audio]"
- George Graham (10/6/2004) Graham Weekly Album Review #1377
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- "Careless Love" Review (in German) "
- Jazz Echo (10/1/2004)
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- "Review of "Careless Love" "
- Kevin Whitehead on Fresh Air (12/28/2004)
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- "The Return Of Madeleine Peyroux "
- Keith and Kent Zimmerman (10/21/2004) for JazzWeek.com
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- "Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love "
- Bernard Zuel (12/24/2004) for Sydney Morning Herald online
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- "Blurring the boundaries of all that's jazz "
- Alison Kerr for Scotland on Sunday (12/19/2004)
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- "Review of Careless Love "
- By Wayne Bledsoe from the Sun, Nov. 21 KnoxvilleNews.com
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- "Album of the Week "
- Jim Manion, WFHB Bloomington, Indiana for TripleARadio.com
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- "Record Reviews Madeleine Peyroux, "Careless Love"
- Nick Cristiano (11/14/2004) for Philly.com
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- "Madeleine Peyroux, l'expérience intérieure "
- Par Nicolas Ungemuth (11/6/2004) Le Figaro Magazine
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- "Short review of "Careless Love"
- in German Rolling Stone (in German)
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- "Songstress Peyroux's jazz CD has been worth the wait "
- By Melody Baetens (11/5/2004) The Detroit News
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- "Review of Careless Love (in German)"
- by Fredi Bosshard for WochenZeitung
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- "Review of Careless Love (in German) "
- by Ulf Drechsel (10/6/2004), Kulturradio am Mittag
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- "Review of Careless Love "
- by Bill DeMain for PureMusic.com
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- "Music Reviews: Madeleine Peyroux "
- by Terry Lawson (10/10/2004) Detroit Free Press
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- "The EightYear Itch "
- by Rob Trucks (10/13/2004) for East Bay Express
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- "Peyroux Breaks Seven-Year Silence"
- By Sam Hurwitt (10/17/2004) for San Francisco Chronicle
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- "Jazz singer Peyroux flush with romance in her music"
- By Charles Levin (10/17/2004) for Santa Cruz Sentinel
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- "Stereophile review "
- By Robert Baird (10/2004)
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- "Careless Love "... is a moody, haunting masterpiece ..."
- By David French (10/14/2004) for All About Jazz
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- "Slideshow/"Dance Me to the End of Love"
- From 10/12/2004 NPR "all songs considered"
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- "Madeleine Peyroux is back, stronger and true to herself"
- By Roberta Penn 10/15/2004 from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- "Jazz diva resurfaces "
- Review by Andrew Gilbert 10/15/2004 from Mercury News
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- "Peyroux Trawls Through The American Songbook"
- Review by Alexander Varty 10/07/2004 from straight.com
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- "Singer Peyroux Returns with "Careless Love""
- NPR Weekend Edition 10/3/2004
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- "Madeleine Peyroux: A Musical Stylist Who May Eclipse Nora Jones' Success "
- Review by Lapeste 10/03/2004
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- "Review of "Careless Love""
- Amazon.com review by David Greenberger
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- "Review of "Careless Love" on blogcritics.org"
- review by ClubhouseCancer 10/1/2004
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- "Finally, but finally, Madeleine Peyroux's much-anticipated second album ..."
- BRUB: Brooklyn Bridge User Group Blog 09/25/2004
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- "Review of "Careless Love""
- www.voir.ca (9/9/2004 in French)
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- "Review of "Careless Love""
- JPC (in German)
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- "Dallas Observer review of Careless Love"
- (9/2/2004) by Robert Wilonsky
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- "Review of Careless Love"
- Earthlink Entertainment Review
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- "MusicTap (8/30/2004)"
- by Matt Rowe
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- "Review of Careless Love"
- by Don Yates (8/26/2004) from KEPX Seattle
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- "Madeleine Peyroux received rave reviews for her 1996 debut album Dreamland, particularly for her smoky, Billie Holiday-influenced vocals. Eight years later, she's finally back with her second album, and it finds her stretching out a bit musically - along with covering vintage chestnuts from the likes of W.C. Handy, Hank Williams and Gene Austin, she masterfully interprets songs from more modern songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Elliott Smith. And even with all the impressive covers, she contributes one of the album's highlights: "Don't Wait Too Long," a bluesy roots-pop tune she co-wrote with Norah Jones band member Jesse Harris and producer Larry Klein. The album features tastefully understated production, and her vocal style remains as intoxicating as ever."
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- "Review of Careless Love"
- by Jay Ruttenberg from the Thu, Sep. 16 TimeOut New York Album Reviews
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- "Among Bob Dylan's manifold song-writing assets is his work's vulnerability to interpretation — what other American icon has had his writing edited for public consciousness by the likes of Manfred Mann and Peter, Paul and Mary? Recently, collections have been issued featuring Dylan covers by country; gospel and reggae artists. But perhaps the shrewdest present-day reading of a Dylan song is by the Paris-bred torch singer Madeleine Peyroux, who here transforms "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" into a sultry ballad that seems to predate the original by 30 years. Dragging the song to a sleepy crawl, Peyroux ignores the false joy with which Dylan himself has approached the number and instead reinforces his words with a rueful croon that reflects her debt to Billie Holiday.
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- This is Peyroux's first album since her 1996 debut, Dreamland. It was an untimely hiatus: While she was sleeping, Norah Jones drew a fan base roughly the size of planet Earth by performing in a similarly modest style that teeters between pop and jazz. Peyroux is more of a traditionalist. Whether reworking W.C. Handy or Elliott Smith, she draws on jazz singers from way back, generally surfacing with resourceful adaptations. Yet nothing rivals the Dylan cover, which deserves the highest honor for this minigenre: May it play at Starbucks for years to come."
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- "Review of Careless Love"
- from the Tue, Sep. 14 Philadelphia Daily News
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- "LIGHT A TORCH: Many have tried to emulate the languid, conversational yet also sensual aura of Billie Holiday. But the artist who really brings it home is Madeleine Peyroux, back after a long hiatus with "Careless Love" (Rounder) produced by Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin.) Repertoire ranges from Hank Williams' "Weary Blues" to Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love." B+"
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- "Review of Careless Love"
- from the Sun, Sep. 12 New York Times Arts & Leisure section
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- "MADELEINE PEYROUX A vocalist who emerged in the mid-90's from singing in the New Orleans streets, Ms. Peyroux could inhabit Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf, doing the tragic, pinched-voice thing perfectly. She still can and does — that little voice remains somehow central to her — but on "Careless Love," her first album in eight years, she enlarges and updates the repertory, wading into the Elliott Smith and Jesse Harris catalogs. Tuesday. Rounder. (She performs at Le Jazz au Bar, 41 East 58th Street, Sept. 20-25.) "
