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Worrisome Heart | 
 enlarge | Artist: Melody Gardot
Label: Universal Music Group
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 7.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1114
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001046802
UPC: 602517496408
EAN: 0602517496408
ASIN: B000WTNCYA
Release Date: March 4, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Worrisome Heart | | • | All That I Need Is Love | | • | Gone | | • | Sweet Memory | | • | Some Lessons | | • | Quiet Fire | | • | One Day | | • | Love Me Like A River Does | | • | Goodnite | | • | Twilight |
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Shivery intimacy: she evokes nights in dark, smoky clubs. March 10, 2008
charmerismyname (Paris, France)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The 23 year old Philadelphian turned to music while recovering from a horrific accident and her recovery process led to a new career.
She was knocked off her bicycle by a car and suffered near-fatal head injuries, as well as pelvic fractures that still force her to walk with a stick.
Before the accident she'd already been working part-time as a lounge pianist to help fund her studies, playing tunes by Duke Ellington or Billy Joel against a hubbub of hecklers and clinking glasses, and one of her doctors said she should try music-making as part of her recovery process.
The recordings she made in a wheelchair at her hospital bedside were eventually released in 2005 as Some Lessons - The Bedroom Sessions.
Picked up by the same DJ who discovered Norah Jones, Melody started gaining acclaim and signed to Universal/Verve.
Well, if you liked Norah Jones and Madeleine Peyroux's beguiling mix of jazz, blues, country and folk, then check out this young singer-songwriter-guitarist, whose voice is purer than Peyroux's but just as characterful and charming.
"Worrisome Heart" will appeal to anybody fond of Norah Jones or Madeleine Peyroux, though its understated bluesiness also seems to reach further back to the heyday of vintage American songwriting.
The music on her album, "Worrisome Heart", will speak for itself, with its enticing mix of blues, jazz and the occasional eruption of steamy, erotic longing.
She displays a rare knack for imbuing music that can sound false or cliched in lesser hands with a shivery sense of intimacy, as though she sneaked up behind you to blow in your ear. She looks the part, too, smiling quizzically from behind a Veronica Lake peek-a-boo hairstyle. Add a penchant for crimson shoes and lipstick and fishnet tights, and you have the kind of dame who'd know how to keep Humphrey Bogart in his place.
It is extremely sexy and intimate - listen no further than the title track or the groovy "Goodnite'" - and on swinging numbers, such as "All I Need Is Love", it has the bounce and ebullience of a young Billie Holiday.
It's also true that tracks like "Sweet Memory" and "Goodnite" have similarities to Norah Jones' standards but unsurprisingly this survivor also has an edge.
Her resulting inner steel cuts through best in top tracks "Worrisome Heart" and "Love Me Like A River Does", lifting them above standard dreamy jazz classics.
On the album's the title track, she calls herself a "worrisome, troubling, baggage free, modern day dame, ain't nobody the same".
She's right there. Meanwhile "Love Me Like A River Does" stands out for its simple yet devastating lines such as: "Baby don't rush, you're no waterfall - love me that is all".
A rising star of the modern jazz scene, this album has 10 songs which evoke nights in dark, intimate clubs before smoking was banned.
This album deserves to have the same cultish success as Peyroux's Careless Love and Jones' "Come Away With me".
It's quality stuff and ideal for turning the lights down low to and allowing you to sink into the mellow, seductive sounds of Melody.
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