Photograph by Clay Patrick McBride sfgate.com
Cassandra Wilson is one of the most important figures in the contemporary jazz world: an award-winning vocalist, musician, and songwriter, instantly identifiable by the trademark richness of her voice, who never rested on her laurels. Her course over the past twenty-five years incorporated elements from blues, country, folk, and occasionally pop music, and resulted in a highly original and diverse body of work. The albums New Moon Daughter and Loverly, which won her two Grammy awards in 1996 and 2009 respectively, may serve as a fine introduction to her work together with Travelling Miles (1999), Belly of the Sun (2002), and Thunderbird (2006). The latter includes a great favourite of mine, her incredible cover of Blind Lemon Jefferson's Easy Rider, a beautiful live version of which you can enjoy below:
The good news is that Cassandra Wilson is back with a new song, Red Guitar, which offers a first view of her upcoming seventeenth studio album Another Country. As Jeff Tamarkin of the Jazz Times reports, most of the songs on this album have been written by Cassandra Wilson herself, or in collaboration with Fabrizio Sotti, the guitarist and producer with whom she had also worked on her 2003 album Glamoured. Another Country displays a guitar-based sound, and its track list is as follows:
1. Red Guitar
2. No More Blues
3. O Sole Mio
4. Deep Blue
5. Almost Twelve
6. Passion
7. When Will I See You Again
8. Another Country
9. Letting You Go
10. Olomuroro
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