LONESTAR
NORAH JONES
SONGWRITER: LEE ALEXANDER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: COME AWAY WITH ME
LABEL: BLUE NOTE
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2002
Norah Jones(born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar;
March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has won
multiple awards and her albums have sold more than 50 million records
worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the
2000s decade. She has won nine Grammy Awards and was ranked 60th on Billboard magazine's artists of the 2000s
decade chart.
In 2002, Jones launched her solo music career
with the release of Come Away with Me, which
was a fusion of jazz with country,
blues, folk and pop. It was
certified diamond,
selling over 27 million copies. The record earned Jones five Grammy Awards,
including the Album of the
Year, Record of the
Year, and Best New
Artist. Her subsequent studio albums—Feels Like
Home(2004), Not Too Late(2007),
and The Fall (2009) all gained platinum status, selling over a million copies each. They were also generally
well received by critics. Jones's fifth studio album, Little Broken
Hearts, was released on April 27, 2012; her sixth, Day Breaks, was
released on October 7, 2016. Her seventh studio album, Pick Me Up
Off the Floor, was released on June 12, 2020. Jones
made her feature film debut as an actress in My Blueberry
Nights, which was released in 2007 and was directed
by Wong Kar-Wai.
Jones is the daughter of Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar and
concert producer Sue Jones,
and is the half-sister of fellow musicians Anoushka Shankar and Shubhendra Shankar.
Come Away with Me is the debut studio album by
American recording artist Norah Jones,
released on February 26, 2002, by Blue Note Records.
Recording sessions took place at Sorcerer Sound Studio in New York City and
Allaire Studios in Shokan, New York.
Come Away with Me peaked at number one on the
US Billboard 200, and
received Grammy Awards for Album of the
Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. It was
later certified Diamond by the RIAA on February 15,
2005, for shipments of over ten million copies in the United States, and has
sold over 27 million copies worldwide as of 2016, making it one of the best-selling
albums of all time
Lonestar where are
you out tonight?
This feeling I'm trying to fight
It's dark and I think that I would give anything
For you to shine down on me
How far you are I
just don't know
The distance I'm willing to go
I pick up a stone that I cast to the sky
Hoping for some kind of sign.
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