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Cassandra Wilson
Closer to You: The Pop Side
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Love Is Blindness (U2)
2. Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)
3. Fragile (Sting)
4. Closer To You (Jakob Dylan)
5. Last Train To Clarksville (Monkees)
6. The Weight (The Band)
7. Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison)
8. Harvest Moon (Neil Young)
9. I Can't Stand The Rain (Tina Turner)
10. Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan)
11. Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell)

CD Details

All Artists: Cassandra Wilson
Title: Closer to You: The Pop Side
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Blue Note Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 4/7/2009
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 400000014579, 5099969608728

Synopsis

Album Description

Singer Cassandra Wilson is a master interpreter of American music. With her unmistakable honeyed husky voice and quaintly rustic aesthetic she has made intimate and personal statments with jazz, blues, R&B, country, and pop chestnuts- few artists can reveal the sensual earthiness of the Monkees tune "The Last Train to Clarksville." Closer to You: The Pop Side celebrates the finest pop moments from her seven album, decade plus legacy with Blue Note. In addition to the aforementioned 1960s nugget, this release features her stark and achingly vulnerable take on U2's "Love Is Blindness" as well as her transcendent take on Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" that evokes fireflies and shooting stars. Among its 11 tracks are favorites from Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and a tenderly romantic version of Sting's "Fragile".

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CD Reviews

Rehash

musiclover | New York, NY United States | 05/03/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Ms. Wilson is without doubt a magnificent artist. However, this cd is merely a rehash of some previously released material along with some amuzing but certainly not purchase worthy additions. I love her work so much I tend to buy it sight unseen but i would not recommend it for purchase. By the way, if you can, never miss an opportunity to see her live."

In A Brown Study

Mr. Christophe M. Hawthorne | London | 04/26/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"You've got to be in the mood for this and of a certain age, it's deep and dark. Maybe it's beause Cassandra touches me fathoms below the happy medium, and is born in my year, that her voice always brings me through tears to a place of calm. Moody Blue. We know how the sad story ends, but she's got the grit to retell it in a beguiling way, like an inner voice and honest companion, a conscience acknowledging pain with dignity. Not everybody's bag, but mine for sure. A requiem. It isn't honey; more like molasses.Oblomov"