Careless Love by Madeleine Peyroux

Careless Love, Madeleine Peyroux's third album, came out on Rounder on September 14, 2004, and it's the record that carried the singer who started out busking on the streets of Paris into the mainstream, selling half a million copies. Larry Klein produced with a light, unfussy touch, leaving plenty of air around that smoky, unhurried voice, and the band plays like it's the last set of a long night in a small club.

Almost everything here is borrowed: Peyroux turns other people's songs into slow-burning, late-hour confessions, from the gently swaying "Dance Me to the End of Love" on down. The lone original, "Don't Wait Too Long", she wrote with Jesse Harris and Klein. A 2021 deluxe edition added live recordings from the Vitoria-Gasteiz jazz festival in the summer of 2005.

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