Madeleine Peyroux caused quite a stir with her debut . She was often compared to because of her husky voice, tainted by smoke and alcohol . Moreover, it was striking that someone as young as her - she was 22 at the time - could interpret songs by Holiday, and in such a convincing way. Dreamland sold no less than 200,000 copies worldwide. It took no less than eight years before she came up with
… the successor. On Careless Love she again uses her velvety voice for her sound that is somewhere between acoustic blues and country ballads with a light jazz touch. She makes pop songs like 's Dance Me To The End Of Love, 's You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go and 's Behind Bars are their own. With her ghostly, melancholy performance, she manages to translate ' Weary Blues into Billie Holiday's 1940s. (AD)more