Closer to You: The Pop Side
| Closer to You: The Pop Side | ||||
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| Compilation album by | ||||
| Released | April 7, 2009 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 57:50 | |||
| Label | Blue Note | |||
| Producer | Cassandra Wilson | |||
| Cassandra Wilson chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [1] |
| All About Jazz | (favorable)[2] |
| The Buffalo News | [3] |
| PopMatters | 7/10[4] |
Closer to You: The Pop Side is a compilation album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, released in 2009.[5]
Reception
[edit]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
[edit]- "Love Is Blindness" (Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.) — 4:54
- "Time After Time" (Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper) – 4:07
- "Fragile" (Sting) — 4:36
- "Closer to You" (Jakob Dylan) — 5:48
- "Last Train to Clarksville" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) — 5:16
- "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) – 6:05
- "Tupelo Honey" (Van Morrison) - 5:37
- "Harvest Moon" (Neil Young) — 5:02
- "I Can't Stand the Rain" (Don Bryant, Bernard Miller, Ann Peebles) - 5:28
- "Lay Lady Lay" (Bob Dylan) — 5:08
- "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) – 5:49
Chart performance
[edit]| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Jazz Albums (Billboard)[6] | 12 |
References
[edit]- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ All About Jazz review
- ^ a b Jeff, Simon (5 April 2009). "Listening Post / Brief reviews of select releases". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
- ^ Layman, Will (8 June 2009). "Cassandra Wilson: Closer to You: The Pop Side". PopMatters. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ Allmusic entry for Closer to You. Retrieved December 2009.
- ^ "CASSANDRA WILSON: CHART HISTORY". Billboard. billboard.com. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
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