COME AWAY WITH ME
NORAH JONES
SONGWRITERS: JESSE HARRIS &
NORAH JONES
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: COME AWAY WITH ME
LABEL: BLUE NOTE RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2002
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.
Come Away
with Me is an acoustic pop album that features Jones supported by jazz
musicians: Kevin Breit, Bill Frisell, Adam Levy, Adam Rogers,
and Tony Scherr on
guitar; Sam Yahel on
organ; Jenny Scheinman on violin; Rob Burger on
accordion; and Brian Blade, Dan
Rieser, and Kenny Wollesen on drums. Jones wrote the title song. Guitarist Jesse Harris wrote
the hit "Don't Know Why". The album includes cover versions of "The Nearness
of You" by Hoagy Carmichael and "Cold, Cold Heart"
by Hank Williams.
Come Away
with Me incorporates blues, jazz, and folk music. Bobby
Dodd of All About Jazz writes that although the album features jazz standards, jazz
purists and academics "may deny [Jones] jazz credibility for her folk
infusion".
Norah
Jones(born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer,
songwriter and pianist. She has won multiple awards and has 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, released in 2004, Not Too Late,
released in 2007, and 2009's The Fall 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 sitar master and composer Ravi Shankar and
concert producer Sue Jones, and is the half-sister of fellow musicians Anoushka Shankar and Shubhendra Shankar.
Throughout 2002 and 2003, Jones appeared on stages
globally, on her first tour with her Handsome Band, travelling throughout Asia,
America, Europe and Oceania, with numerous sold-out concerts and critical
acclaim. Jones' tour to promote her third album, Not Too Late,
began in Wallingford, Connecticut, on April 13, 2007, and featured a free
concert in New York City on July 6, 2007. The European phase began on July 9,
2007, in Paris, concluding in Reykjavík,
Iceland, on September 2, 2007. Jones and band play typically several album
hits, modified with guitar solos and additional percussion. Additionally, shows
may feature several covers of country,
jazz, blues, or folk songs, ranging from the ubiquitous to the obscure. Artists
covered have included, among others, Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Randy Newman, Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Tom Waits, and Townes Van Zandt.
Jones
worked with Reverb,
a non-profit environmental organization, for her 2007 summer tour. She also
performed at Bryant Park on July 6 as part of Good Morning
America's Summer Concert Series.
Her
2012–2013 Little Broken
Hearts Tour had stops in several South America
nations and India. This was her first time touring within these countries.
Come
away with me in the night
Come away with me and I will write you a song
Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they can't tempt us with their lies
And I
wanna walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high
So won't you try to come
Come
away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountain top
Come away with me and I'll
Never stop loving you
And I
wanna wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come
away with me in the night
Come
away with me.