Puss N Boots

Formed in 2008, Puss N Boots was a longtime busman's holiday for Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson, and Catherine Popper. Initially designed as a way for Jones and Dobson to learn how to play guitar, Popper joined the duo not much later and, for years, the trio played various New York clubs, working out a repertoire anchored in Americana — country and folk and jazz, primarily from the mid-century but also reaching back earlier and later — and they started to get some national recognition on the heels of a cover of the Band's "Twilight" performed at a memorial for the late Levon Helm. In 2013, some five years after the group began playing, they signed with Blue Note and then set out on assembling their debut record. Comprised of originals and covers, studio recordings and live performances, that debut was called No Fools, No Fun; released in the summer of 2014, it was supported by a tour of the U.S.