Come Away with Me is the first full-length album by vocalist Norah Jones, released by Blue Note Records on February 26, 2002. The album received Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album and was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on February 15, 2005, having shipped over 10 million copies in the U.S. As of October 2016, the album has sold more than 27 million copies worldwide. Come Away with Me reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart and several jazz charts.
Recording sessions took place at Sorcerer Sound Studio in New York City and Allaire Studios in Shokan, New York.
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Composition
Come Away with Me is an acoustic pop album that features Jones supported by jazz musicians: Kevin Breit, Bill Frisell, Adam Levy, Adam Rogers, and Tony Scherr on guitar; Sam Yahel on organ; Jenny Scheinman on violin; Rob Burger on accordion; and Brian Blade, Dan Rieser, and Kenny Wollesen on drums. Jones wrote the title song. Guitarist Jesse Harris wrote the hit "Don't Know Why". The album includes cover versions of "The Nearness of You" by Hoagy Carmichael and "Cold, Cold Heart" by Hank Williams.
Come Away with Me incorporates blues, jazz, and folk music. Bobby Dodd of All About Jazz writes that although the album features jazz standards, jazz purists and academics "may deny [Jones] jazz credibility for her folk infusion".
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Commercial performance
In the US, Come Away with Me debuted at No. 139 on the Billboard 200 before climbing to No. 1 in January 2003, almost a year after it was released. In total, the album has appeared on the Billboard 200 for 164 weeks. Despite being released at a time when music piracy was high and album sales were declining, the album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on August 22, 2002, sold over ten million copies through early 2005, and on February 15, 2005 was certified Diamond by the RIAA. As of March 2016, the album had sold 11.1 million copies in the US, making it the eleventh best-selling album of the Nielsen SoundScan era. As of October 2016 the album had sold more than 27 million copies worldwide.
In Germany, the album debuted at No. 37. It remained on the German Albums Chart for 141 weeks and reached No. 2 in its 37th week on that chart, where it stayed for four weeks. Come Away with Me sold 750,000 copies, reaching 5× gold, becoming her most successful album in Germany and one of the longest charting albums on the German Albums Chart.
Polyphonic HMI's "Hit Song Science" software predicted the album's success months before its release, contradicting skeptical executives.
Awards and honors
The album won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The song "Don't Know Why" won Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Although she was happy about her success, Jones felt bad about sweeping the Grammy Awards. In an interview for 60 Minutes, Jones told Katie Couric, "I felt like I went to somebody else's birthday party and I ate all their cake. Without anybody else getting a piece.
Rolling Stone ranked Come Away with Me at number 54 on its list of the 100 Best Albums of the Decade.
Critical reception
Come Away with Me received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 82 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" based on 9 reviews.
The album received 3.5 out of 4 stars from both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Los Angeles Times reviews. AllMusic's David R. Adler wrote that "while the mood of this record stagnates after a few songs, it does give a strong indication of Jones' alluring talents." Robert Christgau of The Village Voice cited it as "the most unjazz album [Blue Note] has ever released" and criticized that "Jones's voice dominates the record" because "her main writers are pretty anonymous", although he found it to be a "sincere" and "exemplary biz success story in which the good guys win." In his Consumer Guide, Christgau picked out her cover version of Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart" as a "choice cut",(), calling it "a good song on an album that isn't worth your time or money".
The A.V. Club gave it a favorable review and called the album "A showcase for Jones' remarkable voice, the disc captures a singer whose rare instinct for interpretation always serves the song, rather than working against it." E! Online gave it an A and stated: "Gorgeous and intimate, the 14 songs on her debut disc ache with romantic maturity and a smart, slow-jam sexiness that belies the fact that, at 22, Jones is hardly older than Britney Spears." Kludge included it on their list of best albums of 2002.
Track listing
Bonus tracks
Personnel
- Norah Jones - vocals (1-14), piano (1, 3, 5-7, 9-14), Wurlitzer electric piano (4)
- Kevin Breit - acoustic guitar (2, 4), National guitar (2), electric guitar (4, 13)
- Bill Frisell - electric guitar (13)
- Jesse Harris - acoustic guitar (1, 5, 6, 9, 11-13), electric guitar (1)
- Adam Levy - electric guitar (3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12), acoustic guitar (8, 10)
- Adam Rogers - guitar (7)
- Tony Scherr - slide guitar and acoustic guitar (8)
- Rob Burger - pump organ (8), accordion (10)
- Sam Yahel - Hammond B-3 organ (6, 7, 11)
- Lee Alexander - bass guitar (1-13)
- Jenny Scheinman - violin (9, 11)
- Brian Blade - drums (2, 4, 6, 8-10, 12), percussion (2, 9)
- Joseph Quevedo - drums (1, 5, 7, 11)
- Kenny Wollesen - drums (13)
Technical personnel
- Producers: Norah Jones, Arif Mardin, Jay Newland, Craig Street
- Engineers: Jay Newland, S. Husky Höskulds
- Assistant engineers: Mark Birkey, Dick Kondas, Brandon Mason, Todd Parker
- Mixing: Arif Mardin, Jay Newland
- Mixing assistant: Todd Parker
- Remixing: Jay Newland
- Mastering: Ted Jensen, Mark Wilder
Charts
Certifications
Awards
Grammy Awards
See also
- List of best-selling albums
- List of best-selling albums in the United States
- List of best-selling albums in Australia
- List of best-selling albums in New Zealand
- List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom
References
External links
- Come Away with Me at Discogs
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