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Closer to You: The Pop Side
Compilation album by
ReleasedApril 7, 2009
Genre Pop
Length57:50
Label Blue Note
Producer Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson chronology
Loverly
(2008)
Closer to You: The Pop Side
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
All About Jazz(favorable) [2]
The Buffalo News [3]
PopMatters7/10 [4]

Closer to You: The Pop Side is a compilation album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, released in 2009. [5]

Reception

Jeff Simon of The Buffalo News stated, "Bless her, Cassandra Wilson has always done this. Even when she was the Queen of Brooklyn's thorny M-Base jazz radicals a couple decades ago -- and not yet the greatest living jazz singer as she is now -- her discs would have one or two pop hits on them, interpreted in the most inimitable way... Call it ultra-smart marketing if you want but there's a lot of marvelous music here." [3]

Track listing

  1. " Love Is Blindness" ( Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.) — 4:54
  2. " Time After Time" ( Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper) – 4:07
  3. " Fragile" ( Sting) — 4:36
  4. "Closer to You" ( Jakob Dylan) — 5:48
  5. " Last Train to Clarksville" ( Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) — 5:16
  6. " The Weight" ( Robbie Robertson) – 6:05
  7. " Tupelo Honey" ( Van Morrison) - 5:37
  8. " Harvest Moon" ( Neil Young) — 5:02
  9. " I Can't Stand the Rain" ( Don Bryant, Bernard Miller, Ann Peebles) - 5:28
  10. " Lay Lady Lay" ( Bob Dylan) — 5:08
  11. " Wichita Lineman" ( Jimmy Webb) – 5:49

Chart performance

Chart (2009) Peak
position
US Jazz Albums (Billboard) [6] 12

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ All About Jazz review
  3. ^ a b Jeff, Simon (5 April 2009). "Listening Post / Brief reviews of select releases". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  4. ^ Layman, Will (8 June 2009). "Cassandra Wilson: Closer to You: The Pop Side". PopMatters. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  5. ^ Allmusic entry for Closer to You. Retrieved December 2009.
  6. ^ "CASSANDRA WILSON: CHART HISTORY". Billboard. billboard.com. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Closer to You: The Pop Side
Compilation album by
ReleasedApril 7, 2009
Genre Pop
Length57:50
Label Blue Note
Producer Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson chronology
Loverly
(2008)
Closer to You: The Pop Side
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
All About Jazz(favorable) [2]
The Buffalo News [3]
PopMatters7/10 [4]

Closer to You: The Pop Side is a compilation album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, released in 2009. [5]

Reception

Jeff Simon of The Buffalo News stated, "Bless her, Cassandra Wilson has always done this. Even when she was the Queen of Brooklyn's thorny M-Base jazz radicals a couple decades ago -- and not yet the greatest living jazz singer as she is now -- her discs would have one or two pop hits on them, interpreted in the most inimitable way... Call it ultra-smart marketing if you want but there's a lot of marvelous music here." [3]

Track listing

  1. " Love Is Blindness" ( Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.) — 4:54
  2. " Time After Time" ( Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper) – 4:07
  3. " Fragile" ( Sting) — 4:36
  4. "Closer to You" ( Jakob Dylan) — 5:48
  5. " Last Train to Clarksville" ( Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) — 5:16
  6. " The Weight" ( Robbie Robertson) – 6:05
  7. " Tupelo Honey" ( Van Morrison) - 5:37
  8. " Harvest Moon" ( Neil Young) — 5:02
  9. " I Can't Stand the Rain" ( Don Bryant, Bernard Miller, Ann Peebles) - 5:28
  10. " Lay Lady Lay" ( Bob Dylan) — 5:08
  11. " Wichita Lineman" ( Jimmy Webb) – 5:49

Chart performance

Chart (2009) Peak
position
US Jazz Albums (Billboard) [6] 12

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ All About Jazz review
  3. ^ a b Jeff, Simon (5 April 2009). "Listening Post / Brief reviews of select releases". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  4. ^ Layman, Will (8 June 2009). "Cassandra Wilson: Closer to You: The Pop Side". PopMatters. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  5. ^ Allmusic entry for Closer to You. Retrieved December 2009.
  6. ^ "CASSANDRA WILSON: CHART HISTORY". Billboard. billboard.com. Retrieved 19 May 2019.

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