The first time I ever heard Norah Jones sing I was passed out in the backseat of my friends red, Volkswagen convertible on the way back from a very good meal in Rhinebeck. She'd already won her Grammys and seduced the rest of the world, but I was a hold out - maybe hold out isn't the right terminology as I was shamefully ignorant of her talents. However, deep asleep in the back of a car, with a belly full of roasted chicken and a shared bottle of Riesling, "Come Away with Me" came on the radio. The song gently roused me out of a dream of good meals and after a couple of verses, I sat straight up, stuck my head between the front seats, and rudely interrupted my friends' conversation and said, "Who IS this?"
My friends didn't know either, they're not music people. But I made them listen to 5 other songs in a row on that station until the DJ did a recap of what was just played. I'm a drill sergeant that way.
These are pics I took at the Theater at Madison Square Garden at Norah's performance 4/18/07.
