Come Away With Me Tracklist
Norah Jones‘ soft blend of jazz, soul, and country slipped gently into our consciousness with her debut album Come Away With Me. She won a total of five Grammy’s at the 2002 Grammy Awards with this release, such as “Album of the Year” and “Best Pop Vocal Album.”
The introductory song and lead single of Come Away with Me, “Don’t Know Why”, won “Record of the Year” and “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.”
Overall, Come Away with Me has sold over 18 million copies to date. Many consider this one of the best albums of the 2000’s, including Rolling Stone (47th on their “100 Best Albums” list).
“Come Away With Me” Q&A
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What has the media said about the album?
NPR ranked the record as the #140 greatest album made by a female artist, saying:
At a time when the music industry was increasingly plagued by piracy and saw rapid declines in album sales, the debut album by a twenty-something old soul (who also happened to be a sitar master’s daughter) was an unlikely success story. Norah Jones’s distinctive voice, laced with a mellow smoke that might have originated at either the cabaret or honky-tonk, was immediately a force to contend with. On Come Away With Me, released by the storied jazz label Blue Note, she sang Great American Songbook standards like ‘The Nearness of You’ and country classics such as ‘Cold Cold Heart with rare, unhurried intimacy. Still, most of the album comprises original material, with Jones penning the memorable title song — a lovely, country-tinged waltz — and a few others. It earned her a major-category sweep at the Grammys, and in 2005, the album notched more than 10 million copies sold – a feat that made Jones the last artist to achieve diamond status for another seven years.
