On June 12th, nine-time GRAMMY winning singer, songwriter,
and pianist Norah Jones will release her seventh solo studio
album Pick Me Up Off The Floor on Blue Note Records. The lead
single “I’m Alive,” a collaboration with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy,
is out today. The song was co-written by Jones and Tweedy,
produced by Tweedy, and features Jones on vocals and piano,
Tweedy on electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and bass, and Spencer
Tweedy on drums.
Jones didn’t mean to make another album. After she finished tou-
ring 2016’s Day Breaks — her beloved return to piano-based jazz —
she walked away from the well-worn album cycle grind and into an
unfamiliar territory without boundaries: a series of short sessions
with an ever-changing array of collaborators resulting in a diverse
stream of singles (with Mavis Staples, Rodrigo Amarante, Thomas
Bartlett, Tarriona Tank Ball, and more). But then slowly but surely,
the session songs Jones hadn’t released congealed into that very
thing she’d meant to avoid — an album. But Pick Me Up Off The
Floor is not some disjointed collage. It holds together beautifully,
connected by the sly groove of her piano trios, lyrics that confront
loss and portend hope, and a heavy mood that leans into darkness
before ultimately finding the light.
1. How I Weep
2. Flame Twin
3. Hurts To Be Alone
4. Heartbroken, Day After
5. Say No More
6. This Life
7. To Live
8. I’m Alive
9. Were You Watching?
10. Stumble On My Way
11. Heaven Above |
