Madeleine Peyroux

The third album in four years from song interpreter extraordinaire Madeleine Peyroux, Bare Bones is both an extension of the currents of 2004’s Careless Love and 2006’s Half the Perfect World and a bold step into previously unexplored psychological terrain. Produced, like its two predecessors, by Larry Klein, this fluid and enthralling new work is Peyroux’s most personal yet. This is hardly surprising considering she had a hand in writing each of the 11 songs, marking the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

• “Between the Bars,” her reworking of the Elliott Smith tune

• A Leonard Cohen classic from a recent TV appearance

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