Madeleine Peyroux – Careless Love CD

Careless Love is a jazz album by Madeleine Peyroux on Rounder. This is the CD edition. This edition was released on September 14, 2004.

The long awaited follow-up to the highly acclaimed DREAMLAND, Peyroux weaves strands of acoustic blues, country ballads, classic jazz, torch songs and pop into vibrant fabric that is both timeless and throughly up to date. When Madeleine Peyroux's debut, Dreamland, was released in 1996, its success threw her for a loop. She's taken eight years to create this follow-up, and, at age 30, she brings a confidence and resilience to this dozen-song set. She's able to move seamlessly between songs by writers as diverse as Elliott Smith and W.C. Handy, whose title track was popularized by Bessie Smith. Though American-born, Peyroux absorbed the language and culture of France growing up in Paris with her French-teacher mother. On her debut, she covered Edith Piaf, and this time out she wraps herself around "J'ai Deux Amours," which Josephine Baker sang to the Allied troops during World War II. --David Greenberger