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Melody Gardot
Melody Gardot's Worrisome Heart was last week's iTunes free single of the week, but I only noticed when I came back home with my newly purchased CD from Starbuck's Hear Music store (yes, I still archaically purchase music encoded on little plastic discs) ready for ripping.
Melody Gardot didn't start her musical career out of a grand artistic vision. While riding her bicycle, she was hit by the driver of a Jeep making an illegal turn. Hospitalized for months, Gardot used music for recovery therapy, at doctors' suggestion. In the ensuing months, Gardot took up the guitar — it was hard for her to sit at the piano — and recorded what would become the Some Lessons EP. Determined to make more music, she independently recorded and released Worrisome Heart, a jazzy singer-songwriter affair that brings to mind Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, and Eva Cassidy.
The quote above is from an article on NPR, and while I don't own any Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, or Eva Cassidy, I'm sure Melody Gardot will do fine next to Norah Jones and Katie Melua in my collection. Personally, I was hooked from the first bars of the title song, which is strangely similar to George Gershwin's Summertime, but then launches into Melody's search for "a man that could love a worrisome troubling baggage free modern day dame".
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