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(Blue Note)
There is a pop sub-genre that I call "New York cafe culture" where singers are paramount, playing and accompaniment secondary. It is indeed a near cousin to the lone folkie, the difference venue, ambience, and material. Norah Jones is an ingenue of cafe culture, largely accompanying herself on piano, equally at home with Hoagy Carmichael ("The Nearness of You") as Hank Williams ("Cold, Cold Heart"). Jones's voice owes as much to Loretta Lynn and K.D. Laing as it does Janis Ian and ...