Josh Homme and Norah Jones have joined forces to share a cover of Frank and Nancy Sinatra‘s classic track ‘Somethin’ Stupid’.
Norah Jones and Josh Homme took to the stage at Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday, March 12th to perform their smooth take on Frank and Nancy Sinatra’s “Somethin’ Stupid.”
With Jones seated in front of the piano singing and the Queens of the Stone Age founder subtly swaying while singing with the microphone in hand, the duo infused fresh energy in the track popularized by the Sinatra family in 1967 (but written by C. Carson Parks in 1966). Joining them for the performance were two violinists and a cellist who matched the onstage vibes.
The two came together to record the song live during taping of the Norah Jones Is Playing Along podcast.
In the cover, the two take on a more jazz-inspired sound than both the original and 2001 cover from Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman. Homme opens with a blues-tinged riff on the acoustic guitar, before Jones leads the way with a sultry piano melody.
The stripped-back keys continue throughout the cover, as Homme and Jones harmonise throughout. Midway through the cover, the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman lies the guitar face-down on his lap and taps an improvised melody on the back of it.
The new duet comes following Queens Of The Stone Age releasing Alive In The Catacombs – a film that captured their unique performance in the underground tombs of Paris – last summer.
After it received a limited cinematic release and was made available for fans to watch online for free, the band embarked on a ‘Catacombs’ inspired tour across the UK, Europe and North America. This saw them backed by an orchestra, and replicating the stripped-back, melancholic spin that they put on their tracks in the film. They closed out the dates at London’s Royal Albert Hall in October.
