New Moon Daughter Cassandra Wilson and others

• 1Strange Fruit05:55
• 2Love Is Blindness04:57
• 3Solomon Sang05:58
• 4Death Letter04:14
• 5Skylark04:09
• 6Find Him04:39
• 7I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry04:52
• 8Last Train To Clarksville05:23
• 9Until06:34
• 10A Little Warm Death05:48
• 11Memphis05:40
• 12Harvest Moon05:02
• Total Runtime01:03:11

Info for New Moon Daughter

„New Moon Daughter“ won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. From the opening cut, a jagged, ominous deconstruction of Billie Holiday's classic 'Strange Fruit,' it's clear that there is something unusual going on here. Cassandra Wilson is essentially coming at pop tunes from a jazz singer's perspective. Of course many other singers, from Nina Simone to Tony Bennett, have done this before; what sets Wilson apart is that rather than making faux standards out of contemporary songs, she uses her jazz chops to approach the material from an entirely new direction. The result is a bold amalgam that is neither pop nor jazz, but owes debts to both traditions.

Producer Craig Street gives Wilson's adventurous tendencies full reign as she goes on to cover Hank Williams, the Monkees and U2. This time Street, who also produced 1993's Blue Light 'Til Dawn, focuses a little more on her unusual, Joni Mitchell-esque open tunings on acoustic guitar, and there are more original Wilson compositions, which also echo middle-period Joni. Betwixt all those tools and the classic pop material, Wilson creates a new world in which her voice moves freely through genre lines with grace and vitality.

'Instant classic....A warmly inviting and authentic voice promoting multicultural roots, who imbues all she appropriates with genius far surpassing post-modern gloss, Wilson recasts the American songbook....What's so satisfying is that Wilson's realizations revivify material from within their original intent...' (Down Beat)

'...this is an album of such elegant melodies and emotion that Wilson should transcend the jazz genre as easily as Alison Krauss has transcended bluegrass...' (Rolling Stone)

Cassandra Wilson, vocals, acoustic guitar
Kevin Breit, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, bouzouki
Brandon Ross, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Chris Whitley, guitar
Gib Wharton, pedal steel
Charlie Burnham, violin
Tony Cedras, accordion
Graham Haynes, cornet
Lawrence 'Butch' Morris, cornet
Lonnie Plaxico, bass
Marc Anthony Peterson, bass
Dougie Bowne, whistling, vibraphone, drums, percussion
Jeff Haynes, bongos, percussion
Cyro Baptista, Jew's harp, shaker, percussion
The Peepers, background vocals

Recorded at The Turtle Creek Barn, Bearsville, NY and Sound on Sound, New York City
Recorded and mixed by Danny Kopelson
Mixed at Sear Sound, New York City, Beartracks, Suffern, NY, and Bearsville Studio B, Bearsville, NY
Edited at Sear Sound
Mastered at Masterdisk
Produced by Craig Street

Digitally remastered

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