New Paula Cole album announced

"Worth the Wait":

Seven years ago, Paula Cole walked away from the music industry and never looked back. Until now....

"I needed to heal," the 1990 graduate told more than 100 students at a clinic she gave at the Berklee Performance Center on February 16, just hours before she took to the stage for her first concert in seven years. "I felt like I was a plant in shock and I couldn't bloom anymore. So I stepped off that hamster wheel of the music business and I was a human being for seven years and ate humble pie."

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She belted out the end of "Mississippi" from her celebrated album This Fire, while accompanying herself on piano, and treated the audience to a glimpse of her new album Courage—to be released in June by Universal/Decca—with the soulful "Comin' Down."