Pop/Adult - Expanding on what the LA TIMES calls her "postmodernist coolness", acclaimed singer and songwriter Madeleine Peyroux returns with a new set of smart, sophisticated songs. Once again produced by Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Walter Becker of Steely Dan), Bare Bones heralds Peyroux's growth as a songwriter with co-writing credits on each of the album's eleven tracks.

"I'm really happy that I got to write," says Peyroux, "It feels like a new segment, and it's great work. I'm surrounded by beautiful sounds, really honest musicians, really honest playing." Guests on the new project include Becker, Joe Henry, Julian Coryell and David Batteau. Jumpin' first single, "You Can't Do Me", written with Becker and Klein, has a tongue-in-cheek emotional directness and witty acidity:

“You know I get so blue and I go Down like a deep sea diver, out like a Coltrane tenor-man, Lost like a Chinese war baby - gone, gone, gone! Blewed like a Mississippi sharecropper, screwed like a high-school cheerleader, Tattooed like a popeyed sailorman - gone, gone, gone!”

Peyroux's Rounder '04 debut "Careless Love" has sold more than a million units and received enormous critical acclaim. She followed that disc with her 2006 effort "Half the Perfect World."

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