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Glamoured
by Cassandra Wilson
from Blue Note Records
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Jazz-funk-country blues captures calm of night in a swamp. 
Applies her now distinctive fusion-Delta steel, jazz, deep funkiness, and the voice-to a wide range of songs, making them all her own. Many reveal the originals only with close attention. Most coherent collection of her settings that I can recall-all as quiet but insistent and vital as the sound of your blood passing in your veins. The jazz-funk-country blues captures the calm of night in a swamp, but also the vague foreboding of a primordial presence there. Lyrics of tr 1 by Sting capture the mood of the... more info
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Put your iPod away with this one! 
I have asked, as I'm sure many others, that amazon just tell us in the product write-up if a CD is "copy protected" - i.e. cannot be added to a legitimate digital music collection. In the case of this CD I was deeply dissapointed to not be able to play it anywhere I use my iPod. As for Cassandra, yes characterful and typical - maybe a bit predictable and "cookie cutter" by now? I don't know - but she has sooo many similar sounding albums out now that I'm wondering if there's a big machine where you feed in... more info
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The preeminent living interpreter of American popular song 
A jazz singer with the heart of a folk singer and the soul of a blues singer, Wilson also has exceptional taste in song, along with original arranging skills. Wilson also seemingly has no musical prejudices. She is equally at home interpreting the music of the Beatle-mimic Monkees ("Last Train to Clarksville", New Moon Daughter) as that of blues pioneer Robert Johnson ("Come on in My Kitchen," Blue Light `Til Dawn). Likewise, she is equally comfortable recording a song by country icon Willie Nelson... more info
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GrownUpMusic.com Recommended! 
Cassandra Wilson is an original. After years of swinging with a trio, she switched gears and turned to a less traditional sound: lots of guitar and percussion. The result is an earthy fusion of jazz, folk, pop, blues and R&B. When you hear the soul in this woman's husky voice and the way she wraps her style around a lyric, you'll understand why Time Magazine declared her "America's Best Singer." On this CD,
Wilson applies her golden touch to Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay," Sting's "Fragile" and even the... more info
Tracks:
- Fragile
- Sleight Of Time
- I Want More
- If Loving You Is Wrong
- Lay Lady Lay
- Crazy
- What Is It
- Heaven Knows
- Honey Bee
- Broken Drum
- On This Train
- Throw It Away
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