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Jesse Harris is an unsigned thirty-three-year-old musician who was recently nominated for a Grammy award for writing "Don't Know Why," the hit single from Norah Jones's album "Come Away with Me." (The album, which Jesse wrote about a third of and also plays guitar on, was nominated for eight Grammys altogether.) Two weeks ago, when "Come Away with Me" moved into the top spot on the Billboard chart, Jesse became, in a sense, the No. 1 songwriter in the country.
He learned this the other night, several hours after getting home to Brooklyn from a weeklong trip to Brazil with some of the members of his current band, the Ferdinandos, which is...
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