From: Erik Gaderlund (erikg_at_macconnect.com)
Date: 2003-01-20 23:16:20
At 13:22 -0800 01/16/03, t-bird wrote:
>--- John Book <johnbook9_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> --- MGA Update <stevencatanzaro_at_sprintmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > "Come Away With Me" ... Norah Jones...
>> >
>> > after 46 weeks on the charts.... ahead of eminem,
>> > jlo, and xtina....
>>
>>
>> Just like Billboard used to be, before Soundscan.
>>
>> Very cool. And how many albums on Blue Note have
>> sold
>> 2.5 million copies? Imagine if Cassandra Wilson,
>> Greg
>> Osby, or even Joe Lovano had that kind of selling
> > power.
>
>
>so without saying anything unduly mean-spirited, i
>don't get the runaway sales of norah's cd--i don't
>think it's her (from what i hear, she's not that
>charismatic, performance-wise).
>
>-t
My now sister-in-law saw Norah all three times on Leno, and noted
that the last time she finally gave acknowledgement to the audience,
after sitting quitely at the piano the first two times.
And, my brother, and sister-in-law used "Come away with me" for their
first dance. They also had a Jane Monheit album playing at the start
(this was my Christmas present to her.) Though during the wedding we
had my cousin sing Etta James' 'At Last' for the bride's
processional--very cool (a bit of a change from her usual Opera
repertoire.) We had lots of live music there, my brother's band did
some stuff at the reception, both he and wife have lots of musician
friends that did several songs during the wedding.
As for me, I was the repository for music for everybody. I was
repeating Norah Jones and Jane Monheit most of the weekend, and got a
chance to give some new musical directions to one of my new
sister-in-laws (though I think their Father, a big Dixie Chicks fan,
is probably somewhat hopeless), giving some ideas (Zero 7, Koop,
Röyskopp, Portishead, Lamb, Theivery Corp., Charlie Hunter, etc.) get
here something a bit smoother than the punk and ska she usually
enjoys.
erik g
n.p. Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Once More, With Feeling" (the
musical)--if you love the show and you loved Moulin Rouge you should
get a kick out of it.