Name: PIECE BY PIECE
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PIECE BY PIECE

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Album: PIECE BY PIECE
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Shy boy	More Info...	0:03
2)	Nine million bicycles	More Info...	0:03
3)	Piece by piece	More Info...	0:03
4)	Halfway Up The Hindu Kush	More Info...	0:03
5)	Blues in the night	More Info...	0:04
6)	Spider's web	More Info...	0:04
7)	Blue shoes	More Info...	0:04
8)	On the road again	More Info...	0:04
9)	Thankyou, Stars	More Info...	0:03
10)	Just like heaven	More Info...	0:03
11)	I cried for you	More Info...	0:03
12)	I do believe in love	More Info...	0:03

Album: PIECE BY PIECE
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Shy boy	More Info...	0:03
2)	Nine million bicycles	More Info...	0:03
3)	Piece by piece	More Info...	0:03
4)	Halfway Up The Hindu Kush	More Info...	0:03
5)	Blues in the night	More Info...	0:04
6)	Spider's web	More Info...	0:04
7)	Blue shoes	More Info...	0:04
8)	On the road again	More Info...	0:04
9)	Thankyou, Stars	More Info...	0:03
10)	Just like heaven	More Info...	0:03
11)	I cried for you	More Info...	0:03
12)	I do believe in love	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

PIECE BY PIECE is the 2005 second album from jazz-influenced rock artist and includes her interpretations of hits by Willie Nelson ("On The Road Again") and the Cure ("Just Like Heaven").
Georgia-born (as in the country, not the state) singer/songwriter Katie Melua found herself atop the British charts in 2003 with her breezy debut, Call Off the Search, which sold over three million copies in Europe alone. Her laid-back blend of blues, jazz, and pop with a kiss of worldbeat drew comparisons to Norah Jones, and rightfully so. She sticks to the formula on her lush, ultimately safe follow-up, Piece by Piece. This is Coldplay for the Diana Krall crowd, a perfectly rendered slice of adult contemporary pie for a lazy summer day delivered by an artist whose beautiful voice is almost striking in how unremarkable it is. Her longtime collaborator, producer/songwriter Mike Batt, provides the catchiest number, an odd and endearing little confection called "Nine Million Bicycles." It's both silly and sweet, two things that work in Melua's favor. Sure, she can vamp it up with the best of them on bluesy asides like "Shy Boy" and the dreadful "Blues in the Night," but there's a whole lot of innocence in that voice that just shrivels in the midst of all that bravado. Only in her early twenties, Melua's got plenty of time to decide on a persona, and Piece by Piece has enough quality material on it to placate fans until she does, but there's some tension here, and it doesn't sound intentional. Besides, anyone who covers Canned Heat and the Cure on the same record is still trying to figure it all out. ~ James Christopher Monger

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (p.70) - "[T]he singer herself remains beguilingly soulful and flirtatious throughout." -- Grade: B+