Got You On My Mind (Waking Up Music) is the musical collaboration of multi-instrumentalist William Galison and vocal maestra Madeleine Peyroux featuring a series of standards and original genre pieces. The subject of the album seems to focus on relationship ideas, positive and negative, collectively spinning through a multitude of styles.

This album was recorded prior to Peyroux's own sophomore effort Careless Love—during a time when the two shared a romantic and artistic relationship—but legal issues with Peyroux's current label prevented the immediate release of this compilation. Thankfully it's here now…and well worth the wait!

The opening track is a delightful cover of "Back In Your Own Back Yard" that is sizzling good swing, superior to a multitude of previous versions of this standard. As always, Madeleine Peyroux sounds like Billie Holiday reincarnated for a modern audience. Her voice is a wonder to behold—if anything, Peyroux's vocals offer slightly more whimsy than those of the great Lady Day.

The pairing with Galison and his excellent instrumental skills—focusing here on the harmonica and guitar—gives this track and many others, that Django Reinhardt-like sound so popular with the current dance crowds. "J'ai Deux Amours" allows Peyroux to offer cheer to a lover with delicate French chanteuse styling, and great tempo changes in the musical tapestry.

"Flambee Montalbanese" is a Viennese Waltz brought to the listener by way of a covered gypsy wagon, an excellent fast-paced instrumental piece with an eastern European feel. The album's title track, "Got You On My Mind", is a slow blues-y riff that gives the artists the opportunity to blend vocals, and knowing the origins of the album, becomes a strangely fitting and contemplative recording.

Other provocative selections on this compilation include "The Way You Look Tonight", played in a folksy-style with a bossa nova pulse under Peyroux's magical singing, and Galison's repentant lead vocals in the deeply bluesy "Shoulda Known" (featuring Carly Simon as the Scorpion).

There's a bit of a tribute to John Lennon with the slow and pensive "Jealous Guy", and a lighthearted musical interlude with Galison's "Rags for Madi". The album closes with "Heaven Help Us All", another duet from the artists that reaches out with a plea for the saving of mankind—or perhaps the things that exist in all of our hearts and our constant struggles with how we relate to each other.