Fiona Rides "Machine"

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Fiona Apple will kick off a three-week U.S. tour beginning November 22nd in Portland, Oregon, in support of her long-delayed third album, Extraordinary Machine.

Released Tuesday, the follow-up to 1999's When the Pawn . . . has ascended to the Number One spot on the iTunes album chart. Apple began recording Machine with producer Jon Brion (Aimee Mann, Kanye West) in 2003, but scrapped most of the sessions. Though eleven songs from the album surfaced online, Apple continued work on the set with producers Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg) and Brian Kehew (Beck, Eels) for the twelve-track final product.

"I've got a bundle of songs of which I am exceedingly proud," Apple told Rolling Stone of Machine.

This will be the singer-songwriter's first tour in more than five years.

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“He Will Break Your Heart”

Jerry Butler | 1960

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."

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