Norah Jones to Release Collaboration with Danger Mouse

Norah Jones

Frank W Ockenfels 3

Norah Jones will release Little Broken Hearts, a new album in collaboration with producer Danger Mouse, this spring. Jones and Danger Mouse wrote all of the material for the album together at the producer's studio in Los Angeles, and the duo performed all of the instruments themselves. This is their second time working together – Jones previously appeared as a vocalist on Rome, Danger Mouse's collaboration with Italian composer Daniele Luppi. Though Little Broken Hearts is the result of a partnership between Jones and Danger Mouse, the record will be credited only to her.

Jones will promote Little Broken Hearts with extensive touring throughout 2012, including appearances at festivals, arenas and theaters around the world. Official tour dates have not been announced, though tickets for the singer's gig at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles go on sale today.

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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