Happy Sunday fellow Obots! I hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday!
Your Sunday jam session is from Cassandra Wilson.
Harvest Moon- 1996
Cassandra Wilson(born December 4, 1955) is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as “a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field” by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her work, Wilson has won two Grammy Awards.
New Moon Daughteris a studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, released in 1995 on Blue Note. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart in 1996.
New Moon Daughter has more feeling and a darker tone. Wilson makes Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” “her own”. Harvest Moon is a remake of a Neil Young song with the same title.
Enjoy the sounds of Cassandra Wilson!
