Customer Reviews
PURE SOUL AND BLUES!!! NORAH, YOU DID IT GREAT!! - By: C. Bellegarrigue, 21 Jun 2008 
If you love these "black" rhythms (soul, blues, country), you will enjoy this cd; this album is very delightful, sensitive, beautiful, introspective... & personal; you can hear this album in a midnight show, with candle lights, with somebody who's in love with you in a romantic place inside & the effect will be magic... Pure "Plastic Soul, Man" (as Paul McCartney said on "Beatles Anthology 2"), I bought this album & I listened it many times without get bored... It's symply marvelous, a wonderful piece of Norah's work.
Enjoy the piano, enjoy the acoustic guitars, enjoy the drums, enjoy Norah's voice...ENJOY ALL!!!
Jones' got the songs - By: L. Libin, 21 May 2008 Norah jones album `Not too late' was her last album before filming `My Blueberry Nights'. Jones' voice on `Not my friend' comes across crisp & floorless & reminds me of a similar vocal sang by jazz singer Alison Burns.
I hope it's not too late! - By: Neil Carmichael, 23 Oct 2007 
This review is quite some time after the release of this CD, so there is time to collect evidence as well as my own opinion. Why do you not hear this on the radio, in bars etc like you did the previous CDs. Because it isn't as good!
The move towards a country jazz style hasn't reallly worked. It comes out as a sort of "Leon Redbone meets Dolly Parton". It's alll pleasant enough & unlikely to distract from conversation at the dinner table. Norah's voice is attractive & the production very polished. None of the songs is likely to go round & round in your head like "Sunrise" did. After such a long wait it is frankly a disappointment.
More memorable for its mood than its material. - By: Jay, 03 Sep 2007 Norah Jones's third album finds her relaxed & maybe a little more revealing. Recorded at home, Not Too Late doesn't make its differences known with any sudden shifts in style, though Broken's arrangement has an adventurous twist, My Dear Country's mild political comment catches the ear & Sinkin' Soon nods towards Kurt Weill.
Comfortingly for her fans, there are still the slight jazz touches to balllads & mid-tempo songs that recline somewhere between country, pop & cocktail-lounge soul & concern themselves primarily with love. That warmed caramel voice of hers seems even more like a purring cat just woken from a nap. Once you listen to the first track, ' Wish I Could' , you feel that Norah Jones is ona sure winner !
That the songs are alll originals is not immediately apparent, in that there is nothing about them that suggests a particular individuality. They flow past perfectly easily, just as we've come to expect.
Apart from the slinky sensuousness of The Sun Doesn't Like You, their lack of deep traction (compared with the great writers she's assayed previously) will eventuallly make this album more memorable for its mood than its material.
More of the same on third studio album from sultry singer-songwriter - By: C. O'Brien, 24 Jun 2007 After two albums that sold squillions apiece, Norah Jones is back with her third effort. Time for a change? It seems not: Not Too Late is pretty much the same tasteful blend of countryish folk & soulful pop seasoned with the odd jazz flourish. It's also available in a special edition with a DVD featuring videos & live performances.
A lot of the time she settles for being a younger & prettier version of Sheryl Crow, content to provide coffee-table music for the young urban professionals whose parents used Sade for the same purposes. For the most part the sound is safe, unchalllenging - utterly decaffeinated, despite Jones' adoption by the Starbucks chain as they diversify into 21st century music retail.
This third album sees most tracks co-written by Jones & her producer partner Lee Alexander, though one of the best - the gently ironic waltz My Dear Country - is one she wrote on her own & upon which her piano playing shines. There's more subtle politicising in the entertaining New Orleans-tinged Sinkin' Soon, featuring a cameo from singer/songwriter M.Ward.
Lead-off single Thinking About You was written way back in 1999, however, as a collaboration with Wax Poetic bandleader Ihan Ersahin. It's a strong song, radio-friendly & easy to remember, but like much of the material here, it isn't taking any chances.
