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Bare Bones
Jazz · 2009 · 11 tracks

Bare Bones

Madeleine Peyroux

A pivot toward original songwriting that trades Parisian street-jazz for earthy, Americana-inflected blues. Intimate, philosophical, and remarkably sparse.

March 6, 2009 · Rounder Records

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A weary but hopeful meditation on finding peace within one's own skin.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks
01
Instead
5:13
02
Bare Bones
3:26
03
Damn the Circumstances
4:37
04
River of Tears
5:21
05
You Can’t Do Me
5:04
06
Love and Treachery
4:20
07
Our Lady of Pigalle
5:28
08
Homeless Happiness
3:59
09
To Love You All Over Again
3:59
10
I Must Be Saved
4:45
11
Somethin’ Grand
3:44
Moments Worth Listening For
The Hammond B3 organ softly bleeding into the vocal mic on track 1, creating a church-like reverence.
The rhythmic shift into a swampy, blues-inflected groove during the hook of You Can’t Do Me.
The vulnerable, unadorned delivery of the final lines in Somethin’ Grand as the instrumentation fades to silence.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Bare Bones sound next to the rest of Madeleine Peyroux's catalogue?

Stripped Back+1.6σ

The production is pushed notably harder into stripped back than this artist usually allows.

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