Setlist: Norah Jones

Longtime member Lady Lavender sent this in:

SET LIST:

Good Morning
Say Goodbye
Take It Back
It’s Gonna Be
Chasing Pirates
She’s 22
All a Dream
Black
It Must Have Been the Roses
Cold Cold Heart
Out on the Road
Miriam
Happy Pills
The Nearness of You
Don’t Know Why
What Am I To You
Little Broken Hearts
Stuck
Lonestar

Encore:

Sunrise
Come Away With Me

We're gonna work on Lady Lavender a bit and see if she'll give us a full review.

Member Review: Norah Jones

BPD old-timer Trisha22 checks in:

With a tour supporting her 2009 album The Fall, singer Norah Jones showed us why she's so refreshingly tough to pigeonhole.

Although limited to a relatively short 22 rather delicate, dreamy songs, Jones was able to display her old-school country side in the encore, a somewhat pop-leaning style early on and a lot of jazz-tinged nuggets in the middle.

Backed by a five-piece band, Jones - decked out in a black dress and thick red belt -- opened the roughly 95-minute show with I Wouldn't Need You off the latest release, a song with bits of blues, pop and country neatly packaged together. Meanwhile Tell Your Mama was a slightly roots-y, Tom Waits-like effort in the vein of Sinkin' Soon, another quirky keeper doled out halfway through the show.

Veering between playing electric guitar and swaying behind a keyboard in the early portion, Jones seemed to hit her stride with Chasing Pirates, one of the more up-tempo selections which had the singer ending the tune with a pirate's "arrrrgh."

Spending time in the back with her was a complete joy. She told me "Ya know that quirky song Man Of The Hour? It's a tune dedicated to a dog."

Overall, there were few dogs in terms of filler material and when Jones was seated at her upright piano she shone. This was particularly apparent during a smart, jazzy reworking of Hank Williams' Cold Cold Heart and the tender ballad Back To Manhattan. The Williams cover wasn't the only one Jones offered up. A nice take on The Kinks' Stranger wrapped up the main set while Love Me - an Elvis staple on the album by Jones' other side project The Little Willies - definitely hit the mark.

Acknowledging she would play much of The Fall (11 of the 14 songs in fact), Jones doled out early favorites like the sultry, soothing Come Away With Me, Sunrise and Don't Know Why with such a delicate delivery it could've put many to sleep.

For the encore, Jones and guitarist/vocalist Sasha Dobson stood around a lone microphone for Neil Young's Tell Me Why before additional band members gathered round for How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart. The one-two combination proved why Jones would just as easily fit on a bill with Willie Nelson as she would with Diana Krall.

What else can I say? I had one helluva great time.

Glad to hear it Trisha22.

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Are You Jones'in?

Norah Jones is getting her new groove together and taking it on the road, beginning March 5 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Jones’ latest album – The Fall – with its guitar riffs and darker sound represents a change in direction for the lady whose Grammy winning debut album – Come Away With Me – captivated music fans with her jazz-flavored songs.

"I did some demos of (songs) and they came out really well, but some of them sort of begged to go in a different direction,” Jones said during an October interview.

“I realized, I think, what I want to do is work with some different sounds,” Jones added. “I figured that the best way to do that was to try and step outside of my comfort zone a little bit, and work with some different musicians and a different producer. It just felt like a good time to do that.”

So here she comes:

5-Mar-10 Brady Theater Tulsa, OK


6-Mar-10 Midland Kansas City, MO


7-Mar-10 Orpheum Omaha, NE


9-Mar-10 Civic Center Des Moines, IA


11-Mar-10 EJ Thomas Performance Arts Hall Akron, OH


12-Mar-10 Whitney Hall Lousiville, KY


13-Mar-10 Murat Indianapolis, IN


15-Mar-10 Overture Hall Madison, WI


17-Mar-09 O'Shaughnessy St. Paul, MN


19-Mar-10 Riverside Theater Milwaukee, WI


20-Mar-10 Chicago Theatre Chicago, IL


25-Mar-10 Wang Center Boston, MA


26-Mar-10 MGM Foxwoods Mashantucket, CT


27-Mar-10 WaMu Theater at MSG New York, NY


30-Mar-10 Lyric Opera House Baltimore, MD


1-Apr-10 The Paramount Theater Charlottesville, VA


2-Apr-10 Warner Theater Washington, DC


3-Apr-10 Tower Theatre Philadelphia, PA


18-Apr-10 Paramount Theatre Seattle, WA


19-Apr-10 Arlene Schnitzer Hall Portland, OR


21-Apr-10 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA


23-Apr-10 Orpheum Los Angeles, CA


24-Apr-10 Spreckels Theater San Diego, CA


25-Apr-10 Dodge Theater Phoenix, AZ


28-Apr-10 Kiva Auditorium Albuquerque, NM


29-Apr-10 Plaza Theatre El Paso, TX


1-May-10 Stubbs Bar-B-Q Austin, TX


4-May-10 Majestic Theatre Dallas, TX


5-May-10 Verizon Wireless Theatre Houston, TX


6-May-10 Saenger Theatre Mobile, AL


8-May-10 Orpheum Theatre Memphis, TN


9-May-10 The Alabama Theatre Birmingham, AL


11-May-10 Thomas Wolfe Auditorium Asheville, NC


12-May-10 Ovens Auditorium Charlotte, NC


14-May-10 Ryman Auditorium Nashville, TN


15-May-10 Cobb Energy PAC Atlanta, GA

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