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Not Too Late | 
| Artist: Norah Jones
Label: Blue Note
Category: Music
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 2767
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.4
UPC: 094638724926
EAN: 0094638724926
ASIN: B000MG1ZEC
Release Date: January 29, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Wish I Could | | • | Sinkin' Soon | | • | Sun Doesn't Like You | | • | Until The End | | • | Not My Friend | | • | Thinking About You | | • | Broken | | • | My Dear Country | | • | Wake Me Up | | • | Be My Somebody | | • | Little Room | | • | Rosie's Lullaby | | • | Not Too Late |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Though pundits predicted a change of direction for the third Norah Jones album, fans of earlier works will be pleased to learn that Not Too Late maintains the chanteuse's subtle mantra of tasteful, insouciant songs tinged with jazz, folk, country and blues. The album differs in that the majority of tracks this time around were written by Norah herself (and long-term collaborator Lee Alexander); that said, musical support comes from her regular coterie (guitarist Jesse Harris, drummer Andy Borger and singer Daru Oda amongst others), as well as esteemed guests such as Kronos Quartet cellist Jeff Ziegler, Larry Goldings and singer-songwriter M Ward. Patient, simple ballads, calm jazz/folk chords and quiet instrumental embellishments are still what Norah does best and there are plenty here, enhanced of course by her timeless, honeyed vocals. With the notable exception of the idiosyncratic, politically-charged waltz "Sinkin' Soon" (featuring vocals from M. Ward), Not Too Late lopes along with typical restraint and candour, making for another collection of soothing, weightless tunes. --Paul Sullivan
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 PURE SOUL AND BLUES!!! NORAH, YOU DID IT GREAT!! June 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you love these "black" rhythms (soul, blues, country), you will enjoy this cd; this album is very delightful, sensitive, beautiful, introspective... and personal; you can hear this album in a midnight show, with candle lights, with somebody who's in love with you in a romantic place inside and the effect will be magic... Pure "Plastic Soul, Man" (as Paul McCartney said on "Beatles Anthology 2"), I bought this album and I listened it many times without get bored... It's symply marvelous, a wonderful piece of Norah's work.
Enjoy the piano, enjoy the acoustic guitars, enjoy the drums, enjoy Norah's voice...ENJOY ALL!!!
Jones' got the songs May 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Norah jones album `Not too late' was her last album before filming `My Blueberry Nights'. Jones' voice on `Not my friend' comes across crisp and floorless and reminds me of a similar vocal sang by jazz singer Alison Burns.
 I hope it's not too late! October 23, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This review is quite some time after the release of this CD, so there is time to collect evidence as well as my own opinion. Why do you not hear this on the radio, in bars etc like you did the previous CDs. Because it isn't as good!
The move towards a country jazz style hasn't really worked. It comes out as a sort of "Leon Redbone meets Dolly Parton". It's all pleasant enough and unlikely to distract from conversation at the dinner table. Norah's voice is attractive and the production very polished. None of the songs is likely to go round and round in your head like "Sunrise" did. After such a long wait it is frankly a disappointment.
More memorable for its mood than its material. September 3, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Norah Jones's third album finds her relaxed and maybe a little more revealing. Recorded at home, Not Too Late doesn't make its differences known with any sudden shifts in style, though Broken's arrangement has an adventurous twist, My Dear Country's mild political comment catches the ear and Sinkin' Soon nods towards Kurt Weill.
Comfortingly for her fans, there are still the slight jazz touches to ballads and mid-tempo songs that recline somewhere between country, pop and cocktail-lounge soul and concern themselves primarily with love. That warmed caramel voice of hers seems even more like a purring cat just woken from a nap. Once you listen to the first track, ' Wish I Could' , you feel that Norah Jones is ona sure winner !
That the songs are all originals is not immediately apparent, in that there is nothing about them that suggests a particular individuality. They flow past perfectly easily, just as we've come to expect.
Apart from the slinky sensuousness of The Sun Doesn't Like You, their lack of deep traction (compared with the great writers she's assayed previously) will eventually make this album more memorable for its mood than its material.
More of the same on third studio album from sultry singer-songwriter June 24, 2007
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
After two albums that sold squillions apiece, Norah Jones is back with her third effort. Time for a change? It seems not: Not Too Late is pretty much the same tasteful blend of countryish folk and soulful pop seasoned with the odd jazz flourish. It's also available in a special edition with a DVD featuring videos and live performances.
A lot of the time she settles for being a younger and prettier version of Sheryl Crow, content to provide coffee-table music for the young urban professionals whose parents used Sade for the same purposes. For the most part the sound is safe, unchallenging - utterly decaffeinated, despite Jones' adoption by the Starbucks chain as they diversify into 21st century music retail.
This third album sees most tracks co-written by Jones and her producer partner Lee Alexander, though one of the best - the gently ironic waltz My Dear Country - is one she wrote on her own and upon which her piano playing shines. There's more subtle politicising in the entertaining New Orleans-tinged Sinkin' Soon, featuring a cameo from singer/songwriter M.Ward.
Lead-off single Thinking About You was written way back in 1999, however, as a collaboration with Wax Poetic bandleader Ihan Ersahin. It's a strong song, radio-friendly and easy to remember, but like much of the material here, it isn't taking any chances.
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