Saturday, August 17, 2019

Norah Jones - Roll On - Non-Album Tracks (2005-2006)

Pretty much every time I post a Norah Jones album here, I argue that her stray tracks are better and more interesting than her album tracks. This album has a great case in point: the song "Lou Reed." It's an amusing song about the singer Lou Reed being seen cow tipping. It's a fun song, but it's also not the kind of song you'd find on one of her mainstream albums.

This album is filled with similarly interesting songs. A bunch of them are her taking on classics, such as "Wild Horses," "Cry Me a River," and "Your Cheatin' Heart." (She rarely does these on her own albums because she wants to prove herself as a songwriter.) Other songs are new, but more daring than what you'd find on her albums.

So once again I'll assert that if you only know Norah Jones' music from what you hear on the radio, you're missing out. This isn't a huge departure from her usual style, but it has more variety and better songwriting.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Wild Horses (Tim Ries with Norah Jones)
02 I Gotta Get Drunk (Little Willies featuring Norah Jones)
03 Lou Reed (Little Willies featuring Norah Jones)
04 Lonely Lament (Liberation Prophecy with Norah Jones)
05 Cry Me a River (Norah Jones & Jim Campilongo)
06 Roll On (Little Willies featuring Norah Jones)
07 I Don't Want Anything to Change (Bonnie Raitt & Norah Jones)
08 Day and Night (El Madmo featuring Norah Jones)
09 World of Trouble (Norah Jones)
10 Your Cheatin' Heart (Jerry Lee Lewis & Norah Jones)
11 Milking Bull (Little Willies featuring Norah Jones)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15848746/NorahJ_2005-2006_RllOn_atse.zip.html


For the album cover, I used a photo from 2006.

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