Norah Jones - Tryin' to Keep It Together - Non-Album Tracks (2020-2023) | Albums That Should Exist

 Norah Jones - Tryin' to Keep It Together - Non-Album Tracks (2020-2023)

Paul says: Here's another collection of non-album tracks from Norah Jones.

The Covid pandemic dominated 2020 until 2022. During that time, Jones kept quite busy with frequent home concerts. She played enough unique songs in those concerts for me to post two albums of those (as well as all of his home concerts in full). This avoids all of that in other to avoid duplication. Additionally, during this time she hosted a podcast and played even more unique songs. I'm avoiding all those as well. Hopefully those will be the subject of a future album or two posted here, though she also has released an album of highlights from her podcast, called "Playing Along."

The first two songs are bonus tracks from her album "Pick Me Up Off the Floor." Tracks 3, 4, 7, 8, and 10 are unreleased. All of those are from concerts, though most of those were not in front of audiences due to the Covid pandemic at the time. For the two that did have audience applause, I got rid of that using the MVSEP program, so they would better fit in with the studio tracks.

Tracks 5 and 6 are bonus tracks from her 2021 Christmas album, "I Dream of Christmas." The song "I Dream of Christmas" was co-written by Jones, so it's a bit strange it was only a bonus track for the album that was given the same name as the song. Track 9, "Steer Your Way," is from a Leonard Cohen tribute album. The last two are also from a concert, but an officially released one, celebrating Willie Nelson's 90th birthday. 

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 Street Stranger 
02 Tryin' to Keep It Together
03 Yes We Can Can (Norah Jones with Emily King, Abeena Koomson-Davis & Amy Helm)
04 Help Me 
05 I Dream of Christmas
06 The Christmas Waltz 
07 I've Got a Feeling 
08 Let It Be 
09 Steer Your Way
10 The Warmth of the Sun
11 Seven Spanish Angels (Allison Russell & Norah Jones)
12 Down Yonder 

All tracks Norah Jones [unless indicated otherwise] 

now this one is interesting for obvious reasons . . . . . . . 

Norah Jones - I've Got A Feeling (Live At The Empire State Building)

we posted the Empire Set rooftop gig before ad here’s another song . . . . .recognise this one!?

Norah Jones - PBS Soundstage St. Ann's Warehouse New York 2010 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

 

Norah Jones - PBS Soundstage, St. Ann's Warehouse, New York City, 1-27-2010

Paul says : The flood of "PBS Soundstage" concerts continues with a 2010 concert by Norah Jones.

In November 2009, Jones released the studio album "The Fall." It was one of her better reviewed albums, and it sold well, selling three million copies worldwide. She went on practically every show that allows musical performances to promote it, including this one.

Most of the songs are from that album. However, at the end she played her two biggest hits ("Don't Know Why" and "Come Away with Me") plus a cover of "Strangers" by the Kinks.

I had a really tough time finding a source for this. As I write this in April 2025, the video can't be found on YouTube, and the audio isn't on any of the usual bootleg sites. But I dug deep and eventually found a way to stream it, recorded the audio as I streamed, then converted those to mp3s.

This album is 52 minutes long. 

01 talk
02 I Wouldn't Need You 
03 Tell Your Mama 
04 talk 
05 Light as a Feather 
06 Even Though 
07 Young Blood 
08 It's Gonna Be 
09 December 
10 Man of the Hour 
11 talk 
12 Back to Manhattan
13 Sinkin' Soon 
14 Come Away with Me 
15 Strangers 
16 Don't Know Why 

Norah Jones on meeting Ray Charles

 Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She has won several awards for her music and, as of 2023, had sold more than 50 million records worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000s decade. She has won nine Grammy Awards and was ranked 60th on Billboard magazine's artists of the 2000s decade chart.

“When I met Ray Charles I couldn’t stop crying. Twenty-something years ago, still new to the game, I was in a show honouring Elton John. Ray and I were introduced in the parking lot – I bawled uncontrollably. I was raised on his music. A few months later, we sang together for his last album before he died. That was a special day in the studio.

I don’t make music for awards, but sure, they feel good. My first record won five Grammys. All I remember from that night was being starving and Aretha Franklin handing me a statue. The day after, a picture of my apartment was on a newspaper front page: I couldn’t go home. Then my boyfriend had a tragic family death. It put things in perspective.”

Norah is the daughter of Woodstock performer Ravi Shankar who performed on day one of the Woodstock Festival on Friday night August 15, 1969 from 10:00 ~ 10:45 PM. Norah’s mother is Sue Jones, a New York concert producer. After her parents separated in 1986, Jones lived with her mother, growing up in Grapevine, Texas. At the age of 16, with both parents' consent, she officially changed her name to Norah Jones.

Norah’s half sister Anoushka Shankar is a world class musician and sitar player of great renown. She has received nine Grammy Awards nominations and was the first musician of Indian origin to perform live and to serve as a presenter at the ceremony. She was the youngest and first woman to receive a British House of Commons Shield. Anoushka is the daughter of Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Rajan.

 

ADVERT BREAK : NORAH JONES has a new album coming MARCH 8th

 "STARING AT THE WALL"

Listen to “Staring At The Wall” available here: https://NorahJones.lnk.to/SATWID Pre-Save Norah's New Album, 'Visions' out March 8th: https://NorahJones.lnk.to/VisionsPreS... Connect with Norah: http://www.norahjones.com   / norahjones     / norahjones     / norahjones     / norahjonestiktok   See Norah Jones live: https://NorahJones.lnk.to/TourID Directed by Kyle Paas Produced by Norah Jones & Kyle Paas

Norah Jones - Unique Home Concert Songs, Volume 1 (2020) | Albums That Should Exist

Norah Jones - Unique Home Concerts - Albums That Should Exist 2020

Paul says:

This is an unusual album for me to post, because everything I've posted here has been posted before. I've posted no less than 14 albums of Norah Jones' home concerts from 2020. That's a lot of music. That vast majority of that consisted of Jones playing songs that she'd already done elsewhere. I think it was interesting hearing them done in solo acoustic mode, usually quite different from the album versions, but they had been done before. So I thought it would be useful to gather up all the songs from those home concerts that were unique to just those concerts and never recorded anywhere else. It turns out there was enough for two albums. So this is the first one.

The songs here are presented in chronological order of when she performed them. She started in mid-March 2020, mere days after the Covid pandemic became a worldwide phenomenon, and this album continues until mid-June 2020. The vast majority of the songs are covers.

If you look at the mp3 tags, you can see which songs are from which albums I've made. But since many people don't know how to look at those, I'll also explain here. The first six songs are from "Home Concerts 1." The seventh song is from "Home Concerts 2." The eighth song is from "Home Concerts 3." The ninth song is from "Home Concerts 4." The tenth song is from "Home Concerts 5."

This album is 38 minutes long.

01 Patience (Norah Jones)

02 Joey (Norah Jones)

03 You and Me (Norah Jones)

04 Lucky (Norah Jones)

05 I Remember Clifford [Instrumental] (Norah Jones)

06 I Am Missing You (Norah Jones)

07 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Norah Jones)

08 Permanently Lonely (Norah Jones)

09 I'll Be Seeing You (Norah Jones)

10 Light Wind Blowing (Norah Jones)

SOUND OF THE DAY :: NORAH JONES - Why Am I Treated So Bad? [Questlove and Christian McBride]

 

Norah Jones, Questlove and Christian McBride - Why Am I Treated So Bad (Live)

wow! . . . . . . just WOW!

Hotter n September! Cookin’ . . . . . right there!

Connect with Norah:

http://www.norahjones.com

https://www.instagram.com/norahjones/

https://www.facebook.com/norahjones/

https://twitter.com/NorahJones

https://www.tiktok.com/@norahjonestiktok Director / Producer – Sarah Oda Editor – Patrick Yonally Written by: Roebuck Staples Recorded at at Sear Sound, New York, NY

Director / Producer – Sarah Oda

Editor – Patrick Yonally

Written by: Roebuck Staples

Recorded at at Sear Sound, New York, NY

Norah Jones - Theatre Antique, Vienne, France, 11th July 2023 | Albums That Should Exist

Norah Jones - Theatre Antique, Vienne FRANCE 2023 - Albums That Should Exist

Norah Jones – vocals, piano, guitar Brian Blade – drums, vocals Chris Morrissey – bass, vocals Dan Lead – guitars, pedal steel

This album is an hour and nine minutes long. 

01 What Am I to You (Norah Jones)
02 Sunrise (Norah Jones)
03 Flame Twin (Norah Jones)
04 This Life (Norah Jones)
05 Killing Time (Norah Jones)
06 Little Broken Hearts (Norah Jones)
07 Rosie's Lullaby (Norah Jones)
08 All a Dream (Norah Jones)
09 The Nearness of You (Norah Jones)
10 Say No More (Norah Jones)
11 Come Away with Me (Norah Jones)
12 Nightingale (Norah Jones)
13 talk [Edit] (Norah Jones)
14 Don't Know Why (Norah Jones)

15 I've Got to See You Again (Norah Jones)

Wow from a couple of days ago from Paul over at ATSE

Norah Jones - Vienne France 2023 - 

Norah Jones - Hungary 2023 - Don’t Know Why

NORAH JONES Hamburg 2002, Live at the Musikhalle, Kleine Saal, Hamburg, Germany: October 18, 2002 | Big O

 Start your week with this beauty. Norah Jones in Hamburg 2002. Radio FM broadcast and is staggering quality . . . if you play one ROIO make it this

Norah Jones Hamburg 2002 - Big O

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Track 01. Nightingale 4:50

Track 02. One Flight Down 3:12

Track 03. Feelin’ The Same Way 3:52

Track 04. Seven Years 3:04

Track 05. Come Away With Me 3:29

Track 06. What Am I To You 3:50

Track 07. Peace 3:46

Track 08. Painter Song 2:42

Track 09. Lonestar 3:32

Track 10. The Worst 2:22

Track 11. I’ve Got To See You Again 4:55

Track 12. Don’t Know Why 4:02

Track 13. Something Is Calling You 3:08

Track 14. Long Day Is Over 3:04

50 mins

Lineup:

Norah Jones - vocals, piano, organ

Adam Levy - guitar

Lee Alexander - bass

Andrew Borger - drums

Daru Odu - backing vocals

Blue Christmas from Norah (Atop The Empire State Building)

 Some Blasts From The Past for 

CHRISTMAS!

Norah Jones - Run Run Rudolph

Live from The Empire State Building

Merry Christmas from The Fabs!

Paul Brady - Arthur McBride  

 Kathryn Williams / Carol Ann Duffy  

 Leon Redbone and Dr John (yes really!?)  

 Emilia Clarke - Last Christmas

Leon Redbone - Blue Christmas

Kate Rusby - Winter Wonderland

 

 Mike Heron - Feast of Stephen

Bunny Yeager wishes you all a Merry Christmas! (Poacher turned Gamekeeper she became the most prolific glamour photographer especially of her friend and model Bettie Page)

NORAH JONES - Huntington Bank Pavilion CHICAGO JULY 2022 | BIG O

 There's a fair to good audience recording of the wondrous Norah Jones from earlier this year in the summer over at Big O that's worth checking out

Big O says:

NORAH JONES

Chicago 2022

Live at the Huntington Bank Pavilion At Northerly Island, Chicago,IL; July 15, 2022. Very good audience recording.

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In 2020, singer-songwriter Norah Jones released her seventh studio album, Pick Me Up Off The Floor. A departure from Jones’ lounge leanings of the past, Pick Me Up Off the Floor is primarily a jazz pop and jazz folk record, with elements of orchestral pop, blues, gospel, soul, country, funk, and hip hop.

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Norah Jones - Chicago USA 2022 - Big O

Review of the Huntington Bank Pavilion gig here at Loud Hailer Magazine

Feelin' The Same Way [earlier in June] at Oxbow River Stage Napa USA

NORAH JONES - ALASKA 2019 - Big O

 

we had the live in Anchorage set earlier so here she is still in the cold but heck did she warm up the scene!

Norah Jones - Alaska 2019 - Big O

Disc 1
Track 101. Just A Little Bit 4:57
Track 102. I’ve Got To See You Again 5:41
Track 103. It Was You 5:26
Track 104. Begin Again 4:10
Track 105. chat 0:44
Track 106. Wintertime (1) 3:36
Track 107. Nightingale (1) 5:05
Track 108. Sinkin’ Soon 5:44
Track 109. Chasing Pirates (2) 3:35
Track 110. chat 0:00
Track 111. Angel Dream (3) 5:21
Track 112. Don’t Know What It Means (Hey You) 3:01
48 mins

Disc 2
Track 201. Band intros 0:45
Track 202. Come Away With Me (4) 4:23
Track 203. Sunrise (3) 4:43
Track 204. After The Fall 5:04
Track 205. The Nearness of You (5) 3:46
Track 206. Little Broken Hearts 4:37
Track 207. Don’t Know Why 4:27
Track 208. Flipside 4:55
Track 209. Band intros and chat 1:04
Track 210. Hands on the Wheel 3:55
Track 211. Encore break 1:59
Track 212. My Heart Is Full 4:42
Track 213. chat 1:59
Track 214. Don’t Be Denied 5:55
53 mins

Norah Jones - lead vocals, piano, acoustic, electric guitars

Josh Lattanzi - bass, guitar, backing vocal

Pete Remm - organ, piano, bass, backing vocals

Greg Wieczorek - drums, percussion, backing vocals

Now I don't ordinarily post audience recordings (anymore - how spoilt am I? sic) but this is worth settling down for and Norah is on fine relaxed form. Enjoy.

Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animals! 'Run Run Rudolph' - Norah Jones

 For Brother Jobe, Silent Way and all other brother Bloggers out there and passers by too . . . here's my Christmas song message from her new Christmas Album! It's FONKY! 

Norah Jones - Run Run Rudolph from  atop of the Empire State Building! Looks COLD!

Her YouTube channel says:

Norah Jones celebrated the release of her new album, ‘I Dream of Christmas’ live from the top of the Empire State Building with just the Christmas spirit to keep her warm. Presented by Citi. Listen to the album here: https://NorahJones.lnk.to/IDOCID Norah Jones joined by: Sasha Dobson / Vocals Gus Seyffert / Bass & Vocals Brian Blade / Drums & Vocals Watch the official video for ‘Christmas Calling (Jolly Jones)’ here: https://NorahJones.lnk.to/CCJJVidID Watch the official video for ‘I Dream of Christmas’ here: https://NorahJones.lnk.to/IDOCVidID CONNECT WITH NORAH: http://www.norahjones.com https://www.instagram.com/norahjones/ https://www.facebook.com/norahjones/ https://twitter.com/norahjones FOLLOW CITI ON SOCIAL: https://www.instagram.com/citibank/ https://twitter.com/citibank https://www.facebook.com/citibank The Empire State Building name and image® are a registered trademarks of ESRT Empire State Building, L.L.C. and are used with permission. #norahjones #idreamofchristmas Music video by Norah Jones performing Run Rudolph Run (Live At The Empire State Building). Blue Note Records; © 2021 Capitol Records, LLC http://vevo.ly/NWVrMC