Half the Perfect World

Half the Perfect World is the fourth studio album by American jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux. It was released on September 12, 2006. It peaked at #33 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and had sold 218,000 copies in the United States by December 2008. The album featured a total of four original songs, all of them co-written by Peyroux: "I'm Alright", "All I Need is a Little Bit", "Once in a While" and "California Rain". This marked a change in Peyroux's style, who would, in March 2009, release her first album without any covers. Peyroux did a cover of Summer Wind, a song by Johnny Mercer, whom she always credits as major influence on her music.She also recorded three covers (only two on the standard edition, but there was a bonus track,...