![]() ![]() “I’m going to where the sun keeps shining through the pouring rain, I’m going to where the weather suits my clothes,” sings Peyroux in a song of isolation in a crowd, of independence, “Everybody’s Talkin’” by Fred Neil, once used for the film Midnight Cowboy, and memorably, a song in which Peyroux does not express emotion as much as suggest attitudes and sketch scenes-impressions and relationships. Blue Alert,” she sings, and the song could be a very modern interpretation of the blues. Any way you turn is going to hurt,” declares Madeleine Peyroux in “Blue Alert.” Peyroux sings and plays guitar on “Blue Alert,” a mood piece written by Leonard Cohen and Anjani Thomas, and on “Blue Alert” is joined by Sam Yahel on piano, David Piltch on bass, Larry Goldings on celeste, and Jay Bellerose on drums: “There’s perfume burning in the air, bits of beauty everywhere, shrapnel flying-soldier hit the dirt. “You know how nights like this begin, the kind of knot your heart gets in. “I’m All Right” is followed by “The Summer Wind,” a song written by Johnny Mercer with Henry Mayer and Hans Bradtke, and recorded by Frank Sinatra, a song that Madeleine Peyroux somehow-with her unique voice and phrasing-makes her own. He got drunk, he fell down, he threw a few of my things around, but I’m all right. Madeleine Peyroux’s Half the Perfect World is a good album and the collection’s first song “I’m All Right,” written by Peyroux with her producer Larry Klein and musician Walter Becker, is a funny-sad take on a love affair, and may be as worthy of classic status as any new song can be. ![]()
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