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Cassandra Wilson (sardo, g); Kevin Breit (voc, man, g, bjo, bouzouki); Olu Dara (tp); Rhonda Richmond (voc, p); Mark Peterson (b); Xavyon Jamison (dr); Jeffrey Haynes (perc); a.o.
Side A
The Weight
Justice
Darkness On The Delta
Side B
Waters Of March
You Gotta Move
Only A Dream In Rio
Side C
Just Another Parade
Wichita Lineman
Shelter From The Storm
Side D
Drunk As Cooter Brown
Show Me A Love
Road So Clear
Hot Tamales
Cassandra Wilson continues to move down a highly
eclectic path on 'Belly Of The Sun', the somewhat
belated follow-up to 'Traveling Miles'. While
displaying a jazz singer's mastery of melodic
nuance and improvisatory phrasing, Wilson draws on
a variety of non-jazz idioms -- roots music,
rock, Delta blues, country, soul -- to create a
kind of earthy, intelligent pop with obvious
crossover appeal. Her core band includes
guitarists Marvin Sewell and Kevin Breit, who
blend marvelously, Sewell mostly on mellow
acoustic and Breit adding atmospheric touches on
electric, 12-string, and slide guitars, as well as
mandolin, banjo, and even bouzouki. Bassist Mark
Peterson and percussionists Jeffrey Haynes and
Cyro Baptista provide a superbly sensitive
rhythmic foundation. But because Wilson returned
to her home state of Mississippi to record most of
this album, she made sure to book some time with
local musicians. Thus guitarist Jesse Robinson
guests on (and co-writes) the funky 'Show Me a
Love', and the octogenarian pianist 'Boogaloo'
Ames plays an unpolished yet utterly heartfelt
duet with Wilson on the classic 'Darkness on the
Delta'. Other guests include drummer Xavyon
Jamison, trumpeter Olu Dara, pianist and vocalist
Rhonda Richmond (who penned the slowly swaying
'Road So Clear'), guitarist Richard Johnston,
backup vocalists Patrice Monell, Jewell Bass,
Henry Rhodes, and Vasti Jackson, and the children
of New York's Middle School 44. Wilson delves into
vintage blues with Mississippi Fred McDowell's
'You Gotta Move' and a brief yet dynamic rendition
of Robert Johnson's 'Hot Tamales'. But the best
tracks are the rock/pop covers: the Band's 'The
Weight', Bob Dylan's 'Shelter From the Storm',
James Taylor's 'Only a Dream in Rio', Jobim's
'Waters of March', and Jimmy Webb's 'Wichita
Lineman' (a 1968 hit for Glen Campbell). Wilson
and band are in peak interpretive form on these
ethereal reinventions. While her own lyrics may
not rise to the level of a Robbie Robertson or a
Bob Dylan, her versatility and focus come through
clearly on the originals 'Justice', 'Just a
Parade' (a collaboration with neo-soul rookie
India.Arie), and the Caribbean-tinged 'Cooter
Brown'.
Production: Cassandra Wilson
Kat.č.: PP 35072 (LP - audiofilský vinyl), Pure Pleasure , cena: 1249.00 Kč, EAN: 5060149621653 skladem: 1-5ks, expedujeme do 2 dnů