Eight of anything in three hours is almost always too much.

Eat eight hamburgers in three hours and you'll be close friends with your favourite toilet and a value-size pack of Mylanta. Drink eight beers in three hours and you'll be telling people that honestly, you are the Queen of Sheba. Have eight doses of cough medicine in three hours and you forget about any plans you had involving the operation of heavy machinery.

So does the 'too much' rule apply to Grammys?

Yes if you are Santana who won eight in 1999 with his album 'Supernatural'.

Yes if you are Michael Jackson who won eight in 1983 with what was probably Thriller, but I couldn't be bothered checking .

No if you are Norah Jones who won Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Engineered Album and Producer of the Year for Come Away With Me in 2003.

Which is quite a list really, but this album is worth every single one of its awards. And although I can almost hear the people at Blue Note Records printing up the 'Winner of eight Grammy Awards, including...' stickers to go on all new re-printed CD covers, in the end, it's just a list and they are just trophies and they aren't a true measure of this album's worth.

If you're one of the 5.996 billion people who haven't bought this album yet then you need to.

You need to have this album because Norah Jones is completely honest in a way that Avril Lavigne will never even think about, let alone understand.

You need to have this album because Norah Jones is the sexiest 23 year old that has ever existed.

You need to have this album because it is perfect.

Come Away With Me is one of the most understated works of recent years and its runaway success is surprising, not because it's bad, but because it's so completely not commercial.

The album is a collection of 14 songs straight from the 'American Songbook' as someone called it. They bleed the same red stuff as Shirley Bassie and Sarah Vaughan did all those decades ago but they've got the superb production and hipness our ears have come to expect from the 'new breed' of singer songwriters like John Mayer, Jack Johnson and Ryan Adams.

Each track is a stand-alone monument to music as an art form and every single second shimmers. If you had to pick stand out tracks you would choose Don't Know Why, Come Away With Me, and the Hank Williams cover, Cold Cold Heart - which is absolutely breathtakingly sexy. But to choose three tracks as stand-outs is a travesty of the album, because all 14 songs are perfect. They all have a country and western heart and a jazz soul, but it's the voice that gets you.

Norah Jones's voice defies all metaphors. It is quite simply the sweetest, sexiest, most soulful sound you have ever heard in your life. Norah Jones could read the periodic table and turn you on. Put that to music and you've got Come Away With Me.

Best served at high volume at 1.30am with a bottle of red wine, a full moon and a comfy couch.

Complete aural bliss.