That same kind of jazzy, easy-listening effort that propelled Diana Krall to a Juno last year paid off for Norah Jones in 2002, giving her the top-selling album of the year. The mega-hit Don't Know Why is a funny kind of marker for me as, at this time, I'm about to move into a new phase of my life. My first child arrives next year - 2003, that is - and, though I'm sure I was aware of the song when it first released, it was really Jones' appearance on Sesame Street a couple of years after that lodged the song in my memory.
The rest of the album has some nice covers (Cold Cold Heart worked best for me), and the original standouts are Shoot the Moon and Painter Song.
It's been a while since I listened to anything off this album, Juno winner for Album of the Year, and it turns out that I didn't know much of the tracks past the first few. I probably just didn't pay much attention after I'm With You, which I love, and maybe I just skipped back to that and listened to it again instead of carrying on.
I was struck by how the first track, Losing Grip, sounds very inspired by Alanis Morissette, followed by a sudden gear change for Complicated. Then there's Nobody's Fool, featuring Lavigne taking her best shot at a Lisa Lopes rap, so stylistically this album is all over the place.
Also, and this is another marker for what was going on at the time, I remember that this was one of the first albums that I downloaded through Limewire. So, now that I'm thinking it through, it would make sense that I never actually had the whole album and might have just cherry-picked what to download. I'm not proud of this.
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