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"When I hear a song Norah is singing or playing on I can hear her spirit and her soul very clearly," singer-songwriter Ryan Adams said of his friend in an email. "There is an elegance to how guarded she is in her timing and there are a lot of dimly lit corridors in her musical passages. It's a lovely trap she sets for the listener. Also you would never mistake her for someone else or someone else for her. She is completely giving in that sense. I adore that." Danger Mouse helps her explore those dark places more deeply than ever before. Burton, who declined an interview request, is known for bringing something very different out of the artists he works with, including Cee Lo Green (the two formed the duo Gnarls Barkley), The Black Keys, James Mercer of The Shins and Beck. Eli Wolf, the vice president of A&R at Blue Note, says "Little Broken Hearts" is another example of Burton's ability to find hidden facets. "What's remarkable to me is you have the meeting of two singular musical personalities in Norah and Brian and they kind of took from each similarities and differences to make a true musical marriage," said Wolf, who has worked with Jones her entire 10-year career. "For example, Norah has a talent for giving wonderful space and breadth to her music while Brian has a tremendous knack for these amazing layers of production. And they sort of took this yin and yang to find a harmony and musical middle ground."
And now that "Little Broken Hearts" has been released, Jones finds herself in a much happier mood than she posits on the album. She's got a new boyfriend and is happy to be taking five album's worth of songs on tour. She's content to focus on the now and she's not really thinking about what comes after that. She might move back to Texas for a while and make a country album. Who knows? Wouldn't be that strange a move for someone who has a piano in her kitchen. "I really have no idea, which is fun," Jones said. "I'm totally happy that way." ___ Online:
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