{"product_id":"cassandra-wilson-blue-light-til-dawn","title":"Cassandra Wilson Blue Light 'Til Dawn","description":"[[Release Detail]]\u003cp\u003eCassandra Wilson started out as a jazz singer, doing gigs with several innovative bands (including Brooklyn’s experimental M-Base collective) and at the same time recording typical jazz-singer let-me-entertain-you stuff—\"Night and Day\" and “Blue Skies” and shooby dooby dooby. Eventually the Mississippi-born New York–based vocalist, who reigned among the elite jazz singers of the 1980s, became restless, and began to look beyond torch songs for inspiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo she looked outside of jazz for inspiration. In interviews, she’s recalled how she began seeking new challenges for her voice, a mighty instrument blessed with husky overtones and an alluringly smoky woodish hue. She began to integrate gospel and blues and pop songs into her performances, eventually assimilating them into music that blurs genre distinctions entirely. Blue Light ‘til Dawn is the first album to capture that shift. It features wondrously spare, molasses-slow versions of Robert Johnson (“Come On in My Kitchen,” “Hellhound on My Trail”), Philly soul (Thom Bell and Linda Creed’s “Children of the Night,”), pop (Van Morrison’s “Tupelo Honey”), and torch song (“You Don’t Know What Love Is”).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking with a small group of inventive New York jazzers, emphasizing hand drums and percussion over trap set, Wilson cultivates the opposite of dazzle—hers is an inviting, shadow-filled sound that calls from a lonesome bayou. Atmosphere dictates everything that happens on these tracks, and helps knit together pieces from disparate ends of popular music. It also guides Wilson’s vocals: Her sullen “Hellhound” wanders far from typical blues woe, yet winds up an apt, weary summation of it all the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlue Light became an adult contemporary hit, and set Wilson on the course she’s pursued since. The records are all engrossing and shaped by extremely sensitive musicianship, but Blue Light has something more—the renegade energy of one who, having taken a flying leap, is just discovering a new mode of expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCourtesy 1000 recordings before you die\u003c\/p\u003e[[Release Description]]\u003cp\u003eCassandra Wilson started out as a jazz singer, doing gigs with several innovative bands (including Brooklyn’s experimental M-Base collective) and at the same time recording typical jazz-singer let-me-entertain-you stuff—\"Night and Day\" and “Blue Skies” and shooby dooby dooby. Eventually the Mississippi-born New York–based vocalist, who reigned among the elite jazz singers of the 1980s, became restless, and began to look beyond torch songs for inspiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo she looked outside of jazz for inspiration. In interviews, she’s recalled how she began seeking new challenges for her voice, a mighty instrument blessed with husky overtones and an alluringly smoky woodish hue. She began to integrate gospel and blues and pop songs into her performances, eventually assimilating them into music that blurs genre distinctions entirely. Blue Light ‘til Dawn is the first album to capture that shift. It features wondrously spare, molasses-slow versions of Robert Johnson (“Come On in My Kitchen,” “Hellhound on My Trail”), Philly soul (Thom Bell and Linda Creed’s “Children of the Night,”), pop (Van Morrison’s “Tupelo Honey”), and torch song (“You Don’t Know What Love Is”).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking with a small group of inventive New York jazzers, emphasizing hand drums and percussion over trap set, Wilson cultivates the opposite of dazzle—hers is an inviting, shadow-filled sound that calls from a lonesome bayou. Atmosphere dictates everything that happens on these tracks, and helps knit together pieces from disparate ends of popular music. It also guides Wilson’s vocals: Her sullen “Hellhound” wanders far from typical blues woe, yet winds up an apt, weary summation of it all the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlue Light became an adult contemporary hit, and set Wilson on the course she’s pursued since. The records are all engrossing and shaped by extremely sensitive musicianship, but Blue Light has something more—the renegade energy of one who, having taken a flying leap, is just discovering a new mode of expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCourtesy 1000 recordings before you die\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e• Format: 180 gram LPx2 gatefold sleeve\u003cbr\u003e\n• Re-mastering by: Ron McMaster at Capitol Studios\u003cbr\u003e\n• Recorded at Sear Sound Studios\u003c\/p\u003e PPAN BST81357 -Artist-Cassandra Wilson\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailability: Pre-Order\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Jazz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JIT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 5 business days for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: 2LP Black\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Cassandra Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53426922062008,"sku":"5TEG9N-8B07-Y9","price":77.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9222\/8280\/files\/cassandra-wilson-blue-light-til-dawn_K8Zka.jpg?v=1777640158","url":"https:\/\/musicrecordshop.com\/products\/cassandra-wilson-blue-light-til-dawn","provider":"Music Record Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}