Madeleine Peyroux

Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux’s sophomore release, Careless Love, is earning high critical praise—and that’s no small feat for a musician who became best known on her first album, some eight years ago, as a twenty-two-year old who sounded uncannily like Billie Holiday. On her new album, you could say that Peyroux is going after something of a Holiday/honky-tonk fusion. Covers include Bob Dylan’s “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome,” Hank Williams’s “Weary Blues,” and Leonard Cohen’s delicious “Dance Me to the End of Love.” The swinging, swaying-with-your-sweetheart renditions that she serves up also have mournful folk currents running through them. But best of all, perhaps, is her version of the jazz standard “J’ai Deux Amours,” a whispery, sexy torch song to two loves: her native U.S. and her adopted hometown, Paris, France. 1010 Nicollet Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-332-1010; www.dakotacooks.com