Madeleine Peyroux 'Poised And Sultry' Live

New York (Top40 Charts/ Rounder Records)- As Madeleine Peyroux moves her way up the Eastern seaboard on her current US tour in support of her latest album 'Bare Bones' (Rounder Records), critics are heaping praise on her live show. The New York Times says Peyroux 'has branched out to refine an enigmatic, low-key personal style that is all her own,' while the Philadelphia Inquirer called her 'poised and sultry.'

The Washington Post's Geoffrey Himes recently praised 'Bare Bones,' saying the album 'sparkles.' Read the full review below:

'Like her role models Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee and Emmylou Harris, Madeleine Peyroux allows vowels to drop from her mouth like ripened pieces of fruit: soft, round and bruised. On her first three solo albums, she mostly applied this sensual singing to material first recorded by the likes of Patsy Cline and Nat King Cole. It took her a while to figure out how to write music as seductive as her voice. She did, though, and her 11 originals sparkle on her fourth album, "Bare Bones."

She had top-drawer help. Larry Klein, Joni Mitchell's former producer and husband, is Peyroux's producer and co-wrote seven of the songs. There's a Steely Dan-ish wit to the title track ("The truth itself is nothing but a gamble/It might or might not set you free"), but Peyroux tosses off the lines with an insouciant shrug of the shoulders.

She applies the same light touch to every song. Her delivery may seem easygoing, but it's never lazy. Beneath the plump fleshiness of these songs, however, is a theme as hard and haunting as the title phrase. On "You Can't Do Me," she finds herself crawling the seas on her bony knees, while on "Our Lady of Pigalle," she's climbing cathedrals with her stony feet.'
- Geoffrey Himes

After finishing this leg of her North American tour and heading on a European tour in July, Peyroux will return for more US dates in August. For a full tour itinerary, go to: https://www.madeleinepeyroux.com/