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Norah Jones performing at the 2003 Grammys, where she took home six awards for 'Come Away With Me.'
WireImageNorah Jones will celebrate the 20th anniversary of her Grammy-winning debut, Come Away With Me, with a reissue featuring a slew of previously unreleased material. The album is set to arrive April 29 via Blue Note/UMe.
The 44-track collection will include a remastered version of the original album, as well as a several bonus discs-worth of unreleased material. These include the original demos that got Jones signed to Blue Note, the first set of demos she made after being signed (dubbed First Session), and an early version of Come Away With Me that Jones made at Allaire Studios with producer Craig Street.
To tease the reissue, Jones has released an alternate version of “Come Away With Me” from those initial Allaire Studios sessions with Street.
The 20th anniversary deluxe edition of Come Away With Me will be released digitally, and as a four-LP vinyl set and three-CD set. The two physical versions will come with a booklet featuring new liner notes by Jones, as well as rare photos from her recording sessions. (Single LP and CD versions of just the remastered original LP will also be available).
In a statement, Jones said of revisiting Come Away With Me for the reissue, “I was incredibly proud of this album and so thankful to everyone who made it with me… I figured it was a good first try and felt that it truly captured who I was — musically — at that time, which made me the proudest and is all you can really hope for when making a record. In the end I was so thankful that I got to explore a few different paths before putting them all together. No one, including the label, had any idea it would reach the success that it did.”
Last year, Jones released a holiday album, I Dream of Christmas, while the year before that she released her seventh studio LP, Pick Me Up Off the Floor.
Come Away With Me 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Track List
Disc One – Come Away With Me – 20th Anniversary Remaster
1. “Don’t Know Why”
2. “Seven Years”
3. “Cold Cold Heart”
4. “Feelin’ The Same Way”
5. “Come Away With Me”
6. “Shoot The Moon”
7. “Turn Me On”
8. “Lonestar”
9. “I’ve Got To See You Again”
10. “Painter Song”
11. “One Flight Down”
12. “Nightingale”
13. “The Long Day Is Over”
14. “The Nearness Of You”
Disc Two
Demos
1. “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most”
2. “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home”
3. “World of Trouble”
First Sessions Outtakes
4. “The Only Time”
5. “I Didn’t Know About You”
6. “Something Is Calling You” (tabla version)
7. “Just Like A Dream Today”
8. “When Sunny Gets Blue”
9. “What Am I To You”
10. “Hallelujah I Love Him So”
11. “Daydream”
First Sessions EP (previously released as promo-only First Sessions EP)
12. “Don’t Know Why”
13. “Come Away With Me”
14. “Something Is Calling You”
15. “Turn Me On”
16. “Lonestar”
17. “Peace”
Disc Three – The Allaire Sessions
1. “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight”
2. “I’ve Got To See You Again”
3. “What Would I Do”
4. “Come Away With Me”
5. “Picture In A Frame”
6. “Nightingale”
7. “Peace”
8. “What Am I To You”
9. “Painter Song”
10. “Turn Me On”
11. “A Little At A Time”
12. “One Flight Down”
13. “Fragile”
Smashing Pumpkins are hoping to bring their A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness production to the Las Vegas Sphere for a one of a kind performance centered around the legendary 1995 album.
Billy Corgan is stepping away from traditional rock venues and leaning into the world of opera with his large scale A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness tour, which transforms the band’s iconic record into a full orchestral and operatic experience.
Even though the group has not officially been invited to perform at the cutting edge venue in Las Vegas, Corgan admitted he would immediately embrace the opportunity.
Speaking with KROQ, he explained: “It’s a no-doubter for us. We just haven’t been asked yet.
“See, if the Sphere came to us and said, ‘We’d love you to do all of Mellon Collie with that production.’ Now, that makes sense to me to do something like that, to build the show around the album.
"Then you have a chance to recast the songs and the music in a different dynamic.”
The performance sees Corgan joined by acclaimed solo vocalists and complete orchestras, reshaping some of Smashing Pumpkins’ most beloved songs into expansive classical arrangements.
The project first premiered in Chicago and received overwhelming praise, with audiences and reviewers applauding the powerful reinterpretations of songs such as 1979 and Tonight, Tonight.
Corgan shared that the experience has become one of the most meaningful achievements of his artistic journey.
He said: “The success of translating Mellon Collie into operatic and classical form has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. Where on each of the 7 sold out nights in Chicago, we’d finish within the raucous wave of a standing ovation. So to now take it on the road, and to Europe, too says this magical dream doesn’t have to end.”
The production was developed by Corgan alongside Grammy nominated conductor James Lowe, who added: "It has been so gratifying to discover how the nuances and layers of Mellon Collie reveal themselves in fresh new ways in these symphonic, choral and operatic settings. To now have the opportunity to perform this work in Europe with world class musicians in such important venues is nothing short of thrilling."
The lineup features vocalists Ed Parks, Sydney Mancasola, Zoie Reams, Dominick Valdes Chenes and Dean Murphy. The wardrobe for the production was created by House of Gilles designers Gilles Mendel and Chloé Mendel Corgan.
The upcoming run will include several September performances throughout the UK, Belgium, France and Spain, highlighted by two special evenings at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
