Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones has announced North American tour dates in support of her critically-acclaimed new album The Fall, which was released by EMI’s Blue Note Records on November 17. The tour will kick off March 5, 2010 and includes shows in London, ON (March 22) and Toronto, ON (March 23). Full venue and ticketing information is available at http://www.norahjones.com/tour/.
The Fall finds Jones experimenting with a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, and Modest Mouse among others. Jones enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partner Jesse Harris. King also helped Jones put together a new group of musicians to perform on the album, including drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer).
Jones will be in Canada doing promo this week and has the following television appearances confirmed: Canada AM four song performance on December 9; The Hour on December 10 and The Hour Holiday Music Special on December 21 and 24.
CHECK OUT WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE FALL:
“Jones is standing tall on The Fall ... A terrific batch of songs that smartly address her recent romantic travails.”
—USA Today
“Jones sounds more confident and stretches her songwriting muscle...Her continued growth as a writer, not just as singer, brings another exciting dimension to The Fall."
—Associated Press
“Some of her most unguarded songs...Ms. Jones is making a new start.”
—NY Times
"The Fall has been billed as Norah Jones' rock album. In fact, it's something even more surprising: a hot-blooded soul record."
—SPIN
“…delivers spellbinding lyrics in an intimate, dreamy fashion.”
—Toronto Star
“Her voice, always sultry, finds new layers of sexiness.”
—People Magazine
“If that’s a fall, it’s upwards.”
—Sun Media
“Norah Jones has moved on. Her imagination’s flying, whether it’s through those instinctive fingers… or the silken sensuality of her voice…”
—MOJO
“Norah Jones could have kept recording iterations of Come Away With Me for decades. Clearly that's not what she's doing. The gradual shifts away from that oversize debut have worked so far, and The Fall is an even bigger step away, and a step up in what is still the beginning of a big career… what Jones has done with the new record is indeed another departure. Only this time she's heading down a louder, dusted-up rock path.”
—Newsweek |
