Madeleine Peyroux – Let’s Walk (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Madeleine Peyroux – Let’s Walk (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:13 minutes | 805 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Just One Recording, Inc.

Initially earning fame for a vocal style eerily similar to Billie Holiday, Madeleine Peyroux never quite fit into a jazz-only lane. Pursuing larger musical ambitions, she’s evolved into a singer-songwriter with eclectic tastes. Although Peyroux’s last album, 2018’s Anthem, was her first all-originals collection, Secular Hymns two years prior revealed the polarities of her interests, with the inclusion of tunes by Allen Toussaint, Townes Van Zandt, Stephen Foster and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. On her 11th album, Let’s Walk, she teamed with guitarist Jon Herington, who played rhythm guitar in later versions of Steely Dan, to tell her intimate story. Recorded at The Clubhouse in upstate New York, the sound is unsurprisingly focused on Peyroux’s vocals.

“Oh let’s go on to the levee and find true love,” she proposes on “Find True Love,” before continuing with an unexpected turn, “Make a little promise, learn how to die.” General political uneasiness fills “How I Wish,” where Peyroux wrestles with her “white American skin,” along the way regretting every “heinous act/ To which I’ve been a part” and wishing she could find a way to “Fill this empty dread/ On the wire we tread.” Worries return on Let’s Walk’s most successful original, the organ-led “Blue for Heaven” where she wishes for the peace of heaven and her Holiday-like vocals are supported by Catherine Russell, Cindy Mizelle, and Keith Fluitt. The lilting “Et Puis” features lyrics sung in French that translate into a message of caution, “We must not seek pleasure at any time/ And then like that without thinking of the irony.” Peyroux goes into full preacher mode in “Take Care” over Herington’s sampled marimbas: “Water’s great if it’s clear and clean, free of heavy metals and polyethylene/ Filtered, fresh, locally sourced, and it doesn’t catch fire in your sink, of course/ Clothing’s all right when sustainably made/ But find me a seam that’s truly fair trade, meaning well paid, unionized.” After six years since her last album, Peyroux clearly has much to say. – Robert Baird

Tracklist:
1-01. Madeleine Peyroux – Find True Love (04:01)
1-02. Madeleine Peyroux – How I Wish (04:14)
1-03. Madeleine Peyroux – Let’s Walk (04:52)
1-04. Madeleine Peyroux – Please Come On Inside (04:52)
1-05. Madeleine Peyroux – Blues for Heaven (04:17)
1-06. Madeleine Peyroux – Et Puis (04:02)
1-07. Madeleine Peyroux – Me and the Mosquito (03:35)
1-08. Madeleine Peyroux – Nothing Personal (04:12)
1-09. Madeleine Peyroux – Showman Dan (04:01)
1-10. Madeleine Peyroux – Take Care (04:03)

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