Norah Jones - Austin City Limits (2007)
This concert strikes me as really odd sounding. It’s like listening to a really good band playing a bunch of songs they’ve never heard before. Jones’s voice is by far the most interesting thing happening, but the songs are so light and, really, almost unsophisticated that it’s not really enough to just have a singer. Of course, a voice is not a singer, and maybe Nina Simone could have found more in these songs. Perhaps Jones is just distracted by the odd fit between band and song.
Then there’s this:
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