Fifteen years ago, Jones first fell in love with Heart of Gold, and she's been a hardcore Neil Young fan since. "At night, when I'm cooking, I listen to him really loud," she says. "It's hard for me to listen to anything else." Over the years she's seen countless Young shows and even performed with him at the Bridge School Benefit in 2008. "There's something so emotional about the way he plays and writes," she adds. "I always cry when I see him live."~

1. "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere " | Neil Young with Crazy Horse, 1969I love the country side of Neil. This is one of my favorites. It makes me so happy when I hear it, from the opening guitar line to the amazing harmonies.
2. "Helpless" | Neil Young, 1970
This one is a tear-jerker for me, and the groove is incredible.
3. "Barstool Blues" | Neil Young, 1975
I remember being with friends at the beach, all singing this at the top of our lungs. We put it on repeat. I don't think I ever had so much fun.
4. "Comes A Time" | Neil Young, 1978
There's a string section, and then there's a fiddler. I always imagine a string quartet in tuxedos, next to some guy fiddling in overalls.
5. "Don't Be Denied" | Neil Young, 1973
This is from Time Fades Away, the live album he made of unreleased songs. It's so killer, just a classic Neil guitar riff.
6. "Motion Pictures " | Neil Young, 1974
On the Beach is one of my favorite Neil albums. This is one of those songs that makes you feel like you're underwater. It's weird, beautiful, surreal.
7. "Round & Round " | Neil Young with Crazy Horse, 1969
The notes and chords are so bizarre. There's like a weird seventh-chord thrown in there, and it's just beautiful.
8. "Down by the River " | Neil Young with Crazy Horse, 1969
This is my ultimate most favorite Neil song, probably. I'm actually learning how to play the guitar solo. So far I've got the beginning down, but that's the easy part.
9. "Star of Bethlehem " | Neil Young, 1977
When I saw him play the Bridge School, tears were streaming down my face. He just gets that reaction out of you.
10. "Harvest Moon" | Neil Young, 1992
I'm a big crier, clearly, but listening to a song like this makes me feel so good. It makes me less restless. Puts me in a zone

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Now, what I think, on this playlist of notable artists, open to the general public:
can, for obvious reasons, does not reflect, in an open or exhaustive, all your preferences and what they hear usually in your privacy.
Is a playlist  "defensive", which presuppose that the N.Jones does not risk much, perhaps to avoid offending susceptibilities.
Choose a playlist to 10 songs by a single author and songwriter, who is admired, dedicated, and undeniable for all, to me does not tell me much.  Is a set 100% right.  Exclusively dedicated to one artist. Is not a playlist, it's an honor.
Now, if she chose 10 songs from different artist, bands, singers, currently active, for example their age, or contemporaries, as it could give us another perspective view of his vision, tastes, and sensitivity about the music that is by around the world. A real playlist presupposes diversity or eclecticism.

God I wish she was talking to me.

Why does she have to be so young?  Or why do I have to be so old?

Norah Jones On Her Musical Style - Interview by Katie Couric, CBS (2007)

Jones was born in Brooklyn, New York City on March 30, 1979 to sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and Sue Jones. She spent her childhood with her mother, who moved to the Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine, Texas, when Jones was four.

In 1999, after two years of struggling in the program at the university, she left for New York City. Less than a year later she started a band with Harris.