New York, NY (Top40 Charts) 20 years ago, on February 26, 2002, a hard-to-categorize album by an unknown 22-year-old singer, songwriter, and pianist was released with modest expectations. Released by the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records, it wasn't a jazz album, nor did it resemble anything else on the pop landscape of 2002. But Come Away With Me, the debut album by Norah Jones, would go on to charm the world and introduce one of the greatest voices of our time. The album steadily grew into a global phenomenon, reaching #1 in 20 countries, selling nearly 30 million copies, and sweeping the 2003 GRAMMY Awards with eight wins including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist. On April 29, Blue Note/UMe will release Come Away With Me: 20th Anniversary Super
Deluxe Edition, a remarkable 44-track collection including 22 previously unreleased tracks that captures the emergence of a singular talent and reveals for the first time the full story of the making of this now-classic album.
On April 28 at 1:00pm ET, Norah will livestream a performance of the full original album, as well as several songs from the expanded Super
Deluxe Edition, from Allaire Studios in upstate New York where she recorded the first version of Come Away With Me two decades ago. The band also features musicians who appeared on the original album including drummer Brian Blade, guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Tony Scherr, and a special guest appearance from guitarist
Jesse Harris. On May 4, Norah will also be performing "
Don't Know Why" on NBC's The
Tonight Show where she made her TV debut in 2002 when Come Away With Me was first released.
In addition to a remaster of the original album, which was produced by Arif Mardin, the 20th Anniversary Super
Deluxe Edition also includes the original demos that Norah submitted to Blue Note, the complete First Session demos she made for the label, and the first version of the album that Norah made at Allaire Studios with producer
Craig Street, most of which has never been heard before and offers a fascinating look at the album that might have been. The Super
Deluxe Edition was produced by Eli Wolf and will be released digitally and physically as a 3-CD set and a 4-LP vinyl set (out May 20), both of which come in premium packaging with an extensive booklet featuring new liner notes by Norah and rare session photos. Standalone 1-LP and 1-CD versions of the remastered original album will also be released. The original album was remastered directly from the ½" vinyl master reels by Ted Jensen, with vinyl cut all-analog by Joe Nino-Hernes. All other material was mastered from the highest resolution digital source available by Ted Jensen and Greg Calbi, with vinyl cut by Joe Nino-Hernes.
Come Away With Me: 20th Anniversary Super
Deluxe Edition - Track Listing:
DISC 1 - Come Away With Me - 20th Anniversary Remaster
1 Don't Know Why
2
Seven Years
3 Cold Cold Heart
4 Feelin' The Same Way
5 Come Away With Me
6 Shoot The Moon
7 Turn Me On
8 Lonestar
9 I've Got To See You Again
10 Painter Song
11 One Flight Down
12 Nightingale
13 The Long Day Is Over
14 The Nearness Of You
DISC 2 - The Demos
1
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
2 Walkin' My Baby Back Home
3 World of Trouble
First Sessions Outtakes
4 The Only Time
5 I Didn't Know About You
6 Something Is
Calling You (tabla version)
7 Just Like A
Dream Today
8 When Sunny Gets Blue
9 What Am I To You
10 Hallelujah I Love Him So
11 Daydream
All tracks above previously unreleased
First Sessions EP
12 Don't Know Why
13 Come Away With Me
14 Something Is
Calling You
15 Turn Me On
16 Lonestar
17 Peace
These 6 demos previously released as the promo-only First Sessions EP
DISC 3 - The Allaire Sessions
1 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
2 I've Got To See You Again *
3 What Would I Do
4 Come Away With Me *
5 Picture In A Frame **
6 Nightingale *
7 Peace *
8 What Am I To You *
9 Painter Song *
10 Turn Me On *
11 A
Little At A Time
12 One Flight Down *
13 Fragile
* alternate version
** alternate mix
All tracks previously unreleased except "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" and "Picture In A Frame"
Norah Jones first emerged on the world stage with the February 2002 release of Come Away With Me, her self-described "moody little record" that introduced a singular new voice and grew into a global phenomenon, sweeping the 2003 GRAMMY Awards. Since then, Jones has become a nine-time GRAMMY-winner, sold more than 50 million albums, and her songs have been streamed six billion times worldwide. She has released a series of critically acclaimed and commercially successful solo albums—Feels Like Home (2004),
Not Too Late (2007), The Fall (2009),
Little Broken Hearts (2012), Day Breaks (2016), Pick Me Up Off The Floor (2020), the live album 'Til We Meet Again (2021), and her first-ever holiday album I
Dream Of Christmas (2021)—as well as albums with her collective bands The
Little Willies, El Madmo, and Puss N Boots featuring
Sasha Dobson and Catherine Popper who released their second LP Sister in 2020. The 2010 compilation …Featuring
Norah Jones showcased her incredible versatility by collecting her collaborations with artists as diverse as Willie Nelson, Foo Fighters, Outkast, and Herbie Hancock. Since 2018 Jones has been releasing a series of singles including collaborations with artists and friends such as Mavis Staples, Jeff Tweedy,
Thomas Bartlett, Tarriona Tank Ball, Rodrigo Amarante, and Brian Blade, some of which were compiled on the 2019 singles collection Begin Again.
