Episode 230 - Norah Jones
Sodajerker On Songwriting
Sodajerker
4.9 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Norah Jones talks about the 20th anniversary edition of her Grammy award-winning record Come Away With Me and how her songwriting has developed over the past two decades. The singer, songwriter and pianist also discusses her past collaborations with Danger Mouse and Jeff Tweedy, and explains why the bathtub is the best place to write songs.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello there and welcome to Soda Jaker on songwriting. This is Simon, joined as always by Brian, and our guest for episode |
| 0:25.1 | 230 is a multi-grammy winning American singer, songwriter and musician whose sultry voice first |
| 0:31.3 | graced the music world two decades ago, |
| 0:33.5 | with the advent of her hugely successful debut album, Come Away With Me. |
| 0:37.3 | She's since sold 50 million albums worldwide and recorded and performed at the lakes of Foo Fighters, Dolly Parton, Ray Charles, |
| 0:45.1 | Outcast, Cindy Lauper, Mavis Staples, Keith Richards and Herbie Hancock. |
| 0:50.0 | We're delighted to welcome the wonderful Nora Jones to the show. |
| 0:53.2 | Can you remember the first time you became aware of Nora, |
| 0:56.4 | I can indeed, yeah. It was when she was on later with Jules Holland here in the UK, |
| 1:00.6 | around the time come away with me was released. |
| 1:03.0 | Right, okay, yeah that's probably how most of the UK was introduced to her over the shoe. |
| 1:07.5 | I think so, yeah. You can find the clip on YouTube as you can most things these days. |
| 1:12.0 | But it must have been only about 22 at the time |
| 1:15.5 | Wow but the vocals and piano playing are just undeniable and she exudes this kind of |
| 1:21.2 | worldliness beyond their years. |
| 1:23.2 | Yeah, she was so accomplished even by then, wasn't she? |
| 1:26.0 | She was. |
| 1:27.0 | Quite the star-making performance. |
| 1:29.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:30.0 | Our guest was born Guitali Nora Jones in 1979 in New York, the daughter of renowned Indian musician |
| 1:35.9 | Ravi Shanker and concert producer Sue Jones. She moved with her mom to the Dallas suburb of Grapevine |
| 1:41.1 | when she was three following her parents separation and before long |
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