When Madeleine Peyroux s debut, Dreamland, was released in 1996, its success threw her for a loop. She s taken eight years to create this follow-up, and, at age 30, she brings a confidence and resilience to this dozen-song set. She s able to move seamlessly between songs by writers as diverse as Elliott Smith and W.C. Handy, whose title track was popularized by Bessie Smith. Though American-born, Peyroux absorbed the language and culture of France growing up in Paris with her French-teacher mother. On her debut, she covered Edith Piaf, and this time out she wraps herself around J ai Deux Amours, which Josephine Baker sang to the Allied troops during World War II. --David Greenberger
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