Madeleine Peyroux

For the ardently civic-minded Peyroux, Let’s Walk continues the scintillating conversation with her audience – and with the world at large. “This music is part of a dialogue,” she says. “That’s what art is. It’s engagement, community. I believe more than anything in getting together with people and listening to music and conversing. Music is the only way I’ve ever built community.”

Let’s Walk was a long time coming, but well worth the wait. Following Peyroux’s 2018 album, Anthem, the enforced isolation of the global pandemic made any real-time community gathering impossible. From a creative standpoint, however, Covid offered Peyroux a silver lining. Thus, she seized the opportunity to hunker down with longtime collaborator, multi-instrumentalist Jon Herington. The pair reflected on the seismic era at hand and wrote and re-wrote in what Peyroux calls “a shadow of reckoning.”

Soon, the spare, slow-burning Let’s Walk material will be set free in venues around the world. They effortlessly dovetail with Peyroux’s beloved versions of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits classics. As she learned in her busking years, a great song can wield powerful magic. With Let’s Walk, Peyroux takes full ownership of that magic.