“It’s weird when you can see the audience so well,” Norah Jones tells the 80 or so people at PC Richard Theater in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood Wednesday night. The five-time Grammy Award winner has been selling out arenas for the last ten years – so she wants us to know she has some intimacy issues.
“Luckily, you’re all attractive,” Jones adds quickly. “And not talking on the phone. Or yawning.”
Jones serenaded the group – composed of Clear Channel radio winners and longtime fans – for close to an hour, playing mostly new tunes off of 2009’s The Fall (“Back to Manhattan,” “Chasing Pirates,” “Young Blood”), and filtering in old favorites (“Don’t Know Why,” “Come Away With Me”). Perhaps most exciting was a vibrant electric cover of Wilco‘s “Jesus, etc.”.
Poison Ivy was so excited to be a part of this special event… Jones will be headlining Madison Square Garden in March – and we’re not sure the next time we’ll see her in this type of setting!
“I feel like we’ve gotten so intimate with each other,” Jones concluded, before exiting the stage.
“We’ll always have this.” she laughed. “Thanks for coming.”
Check out the shortest video in the history of concert footage, above: five seconds or so of “Come Away With Me,” while security wasn’t looking.
Xoxo,
PI
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