Confession: I only like Norah Jones because so many others told me to


Norah Jones is the darling of Jazz and Audiophile press for a few years.  I've heard her albums, maybe even bought one.  Look, being a musical artist is hard as hell and I can't do it, but I realize in listening to others talk about her that I'm missing something special while listening to her.

Please, without wanting to pile on her, if you love her tell me why.  What has you going about Miss Jones that makes her a standout? No wrong answers.

erik_squires

I'm a Norah fan. Come Away With Me is (was) an audiophile staple. My girlfriend bought it first but then I heard it everywhere I went to listen to high end systems for a while. Last time was at a presentation of the Magnepan 30.7. Funny thing is that album is hard to make sound bad, in my opinion. It's easy on systems. You'd think audiophile albums would be ones that low end systems just can't handle at all but it seems the opposite is mostly the case.  Try Reference Recordings Arnold: Overtures. That is not easy on most systems. 

Nope none of that overrated Diana Krall crap in my collection. 

Ravi or other classical Indian music at their homes, though many probably do have Diana Krall records. 

Rather listen to the Dead Kennedys than DK. 

If she's good enough for Ray Charles and Willie Nelson, then she's real good.  Just listen, or not listen and judge her by her music.  Trying to label her a nepo baby is misleading.

Fun little story: I once made Norah Jones cry when she was, like, four or five years old. My great aunt was a music producer and founder of Angel records and was having a get together at her apartment in New York city. My mom and I were there and I was maybe 10 years old or so. I have no idea who she or her family was. I don't know if Ravi Shankar was there, but her mom had to have been. Anyhow, dessert had been served and she had eaten her small bowl of ice cream and she wanted some of mine and I teaser with a spoon and then ate all of it in front of her and she burst into tears I imagine it totally haunted her entire musical career.