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| Peyroux “Brings Billie Holiday And Hall & Oates Together” Billie Holiday and Hall & Oates certainly seem like strange bedfellows, but according to NPR.org's Marc Silver, Madeleine Peyroux has joined them together quite nicely. In his Song of the Day review of "You Can't Do Me, " one of the standout tracks from Peyroux's new album 'Bare Bones' (out March 10), Silver says "when Lady Day enthusiast Madeleine Peyroux sings "You Can't Do Me, " it's as if Holiday and the self-proclaimed "rock and soul" boys had a musical moment." And check out Silver's full review of the track, which was co-written by Peyroux, 'Bare Bones' producer Larry Klein and Steely Dan's Walter Becker, below. Madeleine Peyroux Finds Rock And Soul In the secret labs of music collaboration, where deceased singers are matched with living partners, has anyone ever tried to bring Billie Holiday and Hall & Oates together? Probably not, but when Lady Day enthusiast Madeleine Peyroux sings "You Can't Do Me, " it's as if Holiday and the self-proclaimed "rock and soul" boys had a musical moment. The song, from Peyroux's new album Bare Bones, starts with an insistent piano chord — very "Rich Girl." In her silkily melancholy voice, Peyroux tells her lover he can't "do" her the way he did before, because when he does, it makes her feel "bust like an Internet millionaire / boom like a Lebanese belly dancer / bang like a new year's firecracker." The droll list goes on, colored with a jaunty wah-wah guitar, organ trills and Peyroux's own delicate touches, such as the way she colors the word "blue" with aural shades of indigo. But instead of sounding like a vintage jazz singer, the way she usually does, Peyroux traffics more in rock and soul. Hall & Oates would be proud. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Jazz News :: home page |