You Can't Do Me

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"You Can't Do Me"
Single by Madeleine Peyroux
from the album Bare Bones
ReleasedJanuary 2009
Recorded2008
Genre Jazz-rock, soul-rock
Length5:04
Label Rounder
Songwriter(s) Madeleine Peyroux, Larry Klein, Walter Becker
Producer(s) Larry Klein
Madeleine Peyroux singles chronology
"Once in a While"
(2007)
"You Can't Do Me"
(2009)
"Instead"
(2009)

"You Can't Do Me" was the first single of Madeleine Peyroux's fourth solo album - Bare Bones - and it hit the radio stations on January 26, 2009. [1] The music was written by Walter Becker and Larry Klein with lyrics by Peyroux. The song was produced by Larry Klein; it begins with an insistent piano chord. [2] No video was produced to accompany the track.

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References

  1. "Rounder Records". Rounder.com. February 14, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2012.
  2. Silver, Marc (February 24, 2009). "Madeleine Peyroux Finds Rock And Soul". NPR. Retrieved March 16, 2012.