I heard "Dance to the End of Love" on MPR and thought, wow neat song and ordered the CD. Kinda bluesy, kinda Billy Holiday. Whats not to like there? The more I listened to the CD, the more I liked it. Such a variety of instruments, clever lyrics. Just love the whole thing. Madeline Peroux, prepare for fame.

I'm a big fan and I guess my expectations are high. Or maybe I should have bought her early work (this) first. Later work is wonderful. This is merely lovely.

I love this woman's smooth sound. After a long day at the office, this album is just what I need to get me through the drive home.

She is like Diana Krall, Alicia Keys and Norah Jones. Very soothing, relaxing, and energizing!

I find the artist and musical arrangement of this CD very soothing, especially while driving.

This is a great voice. We could end the review there. However, some people knock Maddy for sounding like Billie Holiday.Would you knock an up and coming basketball player because they play too much like Michael Jordan?Of course not. Ms.Peyroux does not do Billie material. She does not use a similar band. She is not a 'period' revivalist. Look at the wide swatch of material she covers on this cd. Note too, the use of Charles Giordano,master of all things with keys. (See the Springsteen "Live in Dublin" video) Musically, this is a voice that calms and refreshes like hot chocolate on a cold winters morn. Yum.

My neighbors introduced me to Madeline Peyroux's music and I was enthralled. She has a retro quality to her stylings that evoke a time when people used to get dressed to go out. If you're having people over or just a nice quiet evening at home with some wine, cheese and fruit (and that special someone) you can't miss with this. Her other offerings that I particularly like are Dreamland and Half the Perfect World. Thanks, Mark & Linda!

Madeleine Peyroux's voice is just perfect. It's the kind of voice you just desperately want to listen to--she could be singing the dictionary and I'd be enthralled. But of course, she's working from a brilliant and interesting combination of songs here so it really is a wonderful CD.

"Dance Me To the End of Love," "Between the Bars," and "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" are my absolute favorites. In each, Peyroux brings the song to her--you temporarily forget that anyone else has ever sung it. "Lonesome" is particularly good; just a subtle change in her voice and it all comes together amazingly. A lot of the time I wonder what some wonderful song would sound like in a female singer's voice. Now I ponder more specifically: what would it sound like if Peyroux sang it?

Her French is wonderful and so CLEAR which is a blessing for those of us with high school French, who nevertheless want to understand the words.

A necessary CD. If only to put you to bed with sweet dreams every night. ;)

This CD has nothing new on it. I am just tired of the same songs being sung over and over. She has a great voice, just no inspiration.

I first encountered this album a couple of years back, and it was a most pleasant surprise. This is real jazz, the way it ought to be. Madeline, for the most part, "covers" the work of others; that's OK...old standards became standards for a reason, and she covers them so well that they are virtually her own. This album is my very frequent driving companion. I have since bought her other albums, including the newest release. I wish there were more.

Madeline's personal problems have been well documented. They don't matter here. She is also said to be one of those singers who are better on disc than in person. Apparently, she has severe stage fright. Moot point. So does Carly Simon, and so did Rosa Ponselle, who was the greatest singer who ever lived.

This is a fabulous album. A reviewer once wrote "If you like Norah Jones, try this". Amen. I love Norah Jones, and listen to her frequently. But, Madeleine is in a different league.

If you've ever wished that Billie Holiday were still alive and singing. Check out Madeleine Peyroux. One of the best thing out of of Georgia in a long time.

I love the music of Madeleine Peyroux. She certainly has her own style and anyone who enjoys jazz will feel fortunate to enjoy any of her music. I found this CD to be tops in every way.

I heard "You're gonna Leave Me Lonesome When You're Gone" on the radio a while back and thought how great she sounded. The next day she was still in my mind and I called the radio station and they told me who she was. I was dead broke, wasn't getting paid for another week. . . and I went down and bought the CD. I listened to it through nights of Top Ramen and ice water-- ramen never tasted so good!

The whole CD is great. Each song makes me feel like I am in some European tavern. This is music that just makes you feel good. My teenagers listened to it and I got them to quit listening to their R&B long enough to ask who she was. One resumed playing the guitar that she'd given up a few years ago.

The CD is haunting and stays in your mind long after you turn it off.

There is nothing I can write about "Careless Love", that will top the two spotlight reviews. All I will say is thank God there are artists still left in the world like Maleleine Peyroux, Diana Krall, Cassandra Wilson, etc... etc... This whole recording is excellent, and I can never get enough of her version of Bob Dylan's classic "When You Go". The warmth and passion she emits from her sleepy, serene voice... man, oh man, does she make me feel all warm and gushy inside. I love singers who pour all their emotions into their songs, who let it all hang out. Sure, she's no Billie Holiday, but there is no popular singer alive today that resembles Billie more than Madeleine. I just saw her in concert recently and she and her quartet were absolutely awesome.

Those of you looking for an option from all of that top 40 sewage that plagues our airwaves nowadays, look no further than Madeleine. I have heard just about all of her stuff and this particular recording is my personal favorite. This is also perfect music for many of you out there looking to simply wade into the world of jazz music, rather than diving in head first. Jazz is like fine wine, you don't develope a taste for it overnight, however, once you do start developing that taste, well... then it's all over for you. Trust me, I know from experience.

Enjoy this one!

Although it took way too long for Madeleine Peyroux to record her follow-up CD to the wonderful Dreamland, Careless Love continues the Billie Holliday-influenced Peyroux as she interprets everything from Leonard Cohen to Bob Dylan to Hank Williams to WC Handy.

Her voice is still Holliday reincarnate, still haunting, enchanting, and fascinating. She'll always draw comparisons with Lady Day, but she steadily setting her own course and making her own way in the music business. After all, rank imitators never past the test of time, but artists who can build on similarities and continue to experiement can last a very long time. Madeleine Peyroux is definitely not a rank imitator or a rank amateur. She has the goods and delivers them on Careless Love.

A top performer gives a top performance. Great tunes, and Madeleine's unbelievably beautiful voice does them justice ... and then some. She sings with great clarity and deep feeling. A must-have album.

Occasionally, I buy music based on the strength of one standout song I've heard. That was the case with Careless Love. Peyroux's rendition of Leonard Cohen's Dance Me To The End of Love was so enchanting, I just had to hear more. So, I ordered this CD from an amazon partner and felt a frisson of great anticipation the day it arrived.
Well, I am kind of disappointed. Peyroux does have great voice, but overall the CD is far too loungy and retro for me. It would be great as the musical backdrop to a romantic evening, but its never going to be in heavy rotation. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with the quality of the music, its just not my style. If I had to pick favorites here in addition to the song for which I bought this, I would have to pick Lonesome Road and the title cut.
So if you like sultry, smoky lounge music of the kind you may have heard in the style's heyday, then Careless Love may be for you. But if you anticipate something with more edge, then skip this.

"I've seen love go by my door, never been this close before"

Tasty blues, seductive vocals. Fresh arrangements.
Traditional songs with 40's style jazz rhythmic devices coupled with fresh arrangments, modern chord voicings, and high fidelity recording techniques make the CD a mystical anachronism. Quite Excellent!

"Dance me to the end of love" - Seductive vocals reminiscent of Billie Holiday. Features a nice blues piano.

"Don't wait too long" - Happy blues with organ and a nice jazz guitar solo (1:25)

"You're gonna make me lonesome" - Might be the best track on the cd. A very light feel, with brushes, acoustic bass, jazz guitar and piano.

"No more" - medium tempo blues. Cool jazz guitar turn-around.

"Careless Love" - Really cool blues with featured organ.

-L.

I heard a snippet of "Careless Love" on NPR, and purchased the album right away. I was not dissapointed. Madeleine's voice is beyond silky with a dainty crispness that makes you really listen for the next phrase. The tempo goes from sulky peevishness ( a la Billy Holiday) to a confident soft-spoken strut. Great guitar and drums are backing her on most tracks, but with that intimate feeling of just enough support for her great voice and sexy phrasing; it's all Madeleine. I gave a copy to my son, (26) and my daughter (27), they both loved it and they are all about jazz, blues and music traditions. It is really my favorite new album from all of last year; however, I bought her latest release and it was a letdown.

This is a relaxed sound and I really look forward to listening to this. It is easy enough to listen to at work but also uplifting enough to listen to at home as well. I recommend it!

You need to get familiar with Madeleine Peyroux! Her music is nice and
easy going, has a nice "dance" beat to it. I like Norah Jones, but hadn't heard of this vocalist, so thought I'd try her album. This is not her
most recent album, but listened to the songs on this one and I liked them
better. Her voice has an older quality to it, different than Norah who you can tell sounds more youthful, but her style is just as refreshing for
a young woman singing some "older" music. I probably would buy other CD's
of hers. Really liked it. Even my 35 year old daughter liked her style!!

While Billie Holiday's voice can be heard throughout, each song is done in a new Peyroux kind of way. The album is fantastic for a rainy day, for a long drive, while cooking dinner, or as ambient music. You will find yourself listening to it again and again, and humming the tunes throughout the day. Easily a favorite for those that love the slow classy jazz.

Soulful. An up-to-date and more verstile Billie Holliday. Madeleine Peyroux' voice caresses the heart.

I really like this album and Madeleine's song selection is superb with the exception of Dance Me To The End Of Love. This song written by Leonard Cohen really creeps me out. Most people think it's a love song between a man and a woman. Leonard Cohen explained the song in an interview:

... "it's curious how songs begin because the origin of the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that's why the process is so mysterious about writing a song. But that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain of the death camps, a string quartet was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt. So, that music, "Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin," meaning the beauty there of being the consummation of life, the end of this existence and of the passionate element in that consummation. But, it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved, so that the song -- it's not important that anybody knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity."

Spooky

Madeleine Peyroux has a great voice and terrific taste in songs to cover, and the band backing her up here hits all the right mellow, jazzy notes. If she keeps up the effort, she's bound to produce some classic recordings. But she isn't quite there yet. There's nothing really wrong with these twelve songs - certainly nothing jumps out as poorly done. The problem is more that nothing really jumps out, period. Hearing their songs so tastefully copied makes me want to listen to Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Hank Williams, but Peyroux doesn't make much of a case as to why we should listen to her versions instead of the originals. Not bad at all, but only not bad.

of Love??? i STOPPED what i was doing, ordered the cd from amazon, then downloaded this song from iTunes and spent the night listening to the song on repeat!

a truthful lyric by leonard cohen, sung with a longing that drew me in...as almost no music ever has ~ david bowie singing wild is the wind, others...

you won't believe how powerful, how achingly powerful, this is - try the 30 second snippet and see what i mean...

it made me feel everything that had ever gone RIGHT in my life... everything that had gone terribly WRONG... a song should NOT be able to do that to a person, especially when you aren't prepared for it ~

one of the great musical experiences of my life ~

apparently, any other album by peyroux is disappointing ~ but this is a masterpiece that cuts through ~

For those of you who longed for the sounds of the old time jazz singers like Billie Holiday, here it is! Peyroux's sound is distinctly of Holiday with not only the lazy words sang, but with the very essence of her sound. When first heard, you might think this as a new release of Billie Holiday and begin to enjoy the sounds you've starved for before you remember that Holiday has been dead for over fifty years.
This is truly a long awaited music style that captures a time long gone while providing a new touch to an already perfect sound.

If you love Holiday, you will adore Peyroux. Enjoy this album not as a copy or knockoff, but as a new fresh addition to a historic and classic sound.

Haven't heard of Madeleine Peyroux before I purchased this item. Listening to it, made me float away from day to day issues right away. Ideal for Sunday morning or hot Summer evenings. Do not use it while driving. You may doze away.

Do you love ripoff artists such as Lenny Kravitz and Norah Jones? Does true originality disturb you and drive you to seek cover in the soft womb of corporate created fluff marketed as the real deal? Then you're in for a treat with this album! Not even Rich Little could do Billie better. Texture of voice AND delivery expertly stolen without a qualm, but without any of the icky sincerity and authentic pain of the original. Enjoy!

This is my 2nd purchase of this great CD because I have given the first one away to someone who loved it. Madeleine is a great singer. It's a CD that I listen to all the time.

Rare to find a young voice with this much depth and conviction. She sounds wordly-wise, tender, passionate, strong and vulnerable all at once. She's the real thing, a genuine chanteuse.

Fortanately, I am in the DC area where we have public radio. I heard "Dance Me To The End Of Love" and immediately copped Careless Love and absolutely loved it. Then I went back and purchased Dreamland, another treat. Hopefully she doesn't make us wait nearly another decade. But I'm also glad that she isn't being rushed into producing an album a year either.

I have only heard the clips of this interesting chanteuse, but I plan to buy this latest album. I am very interested to hear what she would sound like with some musicians that really challenge her - perhaps in some uptempo "le jaz hot" swinging pieces.

Or even better, I'd like to hear her with some of the real expatriate (or former expatriate) cats like Donald Byrd. Guys like him are the very foundation of what makes the modern french jazz sound (other than those folks who are no longer with us). I think she would prove her self (or not) and would most certainly grow and develop a more unique sound singing with those musicians.

excellent cd...fine singing and playing...for reviewers insisting she sounds too much like billie holiday; get over it..no artist creates in a vacuum, if you think they do you're kidding yourself...

Really. t's too bad there isn't more of this for me to buy. I have bought both her CDs and have enjoyed them. Her music is classic. Music I will be listtening to for a long time. Really nice to listen to when in a relaxed mood. I'll let other discribe the music in detail, I'll just say I'm very happy to have bought her CDs.