Manhattan Records
2004
Fearless
About This Album
After the female singer/songwriter boom of the '90s -- a boom that saw the rise of everyone from Alanis Morissette to Paula Cole to Shawn Colvin -- singer/songwriters lost some commercial ground for a few years. But that wasn't a permanent situation, thankfully; the popularity of Vanessa Carlton, Avril Lavigne, and Michelle Branch in 2003 demonstrated that there was still a healthy market for female singer/songwriters and that not every young woman who picked up a microphone was expected to sound like Britney Spears. That singer/songwriter aesthetic is very much at work on Fearless, which shows Keri Noble to be an artist of considerable depth and sensitivity. Because of the Arif Mardin connection -- he is one of Fearless' executive producers -- and because Noble is a romantic, piano-playing female vocalist, some listeners might wonder if she is anything like Norah Jones. Mardin, of course, had a track record before Jones was even born, but Jones' Come Away With Me was the veteran producer's greatest accomplishment in the early 2000s -- and given Jones' tremendous success, it isn't surprising that many industry insiders wondered who would be "the next Norah Jones.
Track List (try tracks 1,6,7 and 10)

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