norah jones

A while ago I read that Tom Waits's Bone Machine is one of Norah Jones's favorite albums. Her record Come Away With Me was so smooth and polite, and his quite the opposite... it was something to contemplate.

I just read this in an interview with S. Husky Höskulds, about the Grammy award for Come Away With Me:

It was a pretty bitter sweet experience - to be honest. The fact that we made a beautiful, raw, emotional 'Tom Waits - sounding' record was great. The fact that the record company didn't have to balls to put it out, and had someone else retrack a lot of it, and then remix the whole thing, in a 'diet' version, was not that great. Actually, now that I think of it, it wasn't that bittersweet at all. Seems to me it was almost all bitter... There's really nothing quite like getting an Engineering GRAMMY for the crappiest, most watered down sounding record you've been a part of.

I'd love to hear the pre-diet version of that record.