Blue Light Til Dawn

Cassandra Wilson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 2, 1993)
• Original Release Date: November 2, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B000005HBI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,192 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Jazz Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 2-NOV-1993

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music With Soul After Midnight-Bewitching, January 20, 2001

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Lance G. Rigley (Brisbane, Queensland Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Light Til Dawn (Audio CD)

After reviewing "Travelling Miles" from 1999,I decided to delve back to 1993 to see the basis for the former and to identify the progression in style and product from earlier Ms Wilson.Again I found this to be an adult CD requiring a serious attempt at listening to be fully rewarded,again the result is a unique,ambitious and soulful interpretation of some contemporary blues and soulful songs with the trademark Wilson touch.For those serious enough to step outside the square,this is for you..and in spades as well!!!

The talent is again that*voice* and the interpretative touches she puts onto songs by Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell and Robert Johnson,as well as others,including her own compositions Redbone and Blue Light Til Dawn.She is a maverick of the most interesting kind.I could see the street lights flickering ,the cats squelling the sirens sounding, the rubbish cans rattling,as I staggered home in the pre dawn hours..and that husky smoke laden delivery in my mind.Come On In My Kitchen and Hellhound on My Trail are provocative..if you dont get a kick at listening to these..check your pulse ...you may be dead!!!!

I think her interpretaion of I Cant Stand the Rain is excellent.This song lends itself to a Wilson interpretation,more interesting than the commerically exploited version of Eruption in the disco laden 70s and the interesting treatment given to it by Ronnie Wood on one of his albums years later.

As with the Miles Davis tribute,I found the muscianship excellent,with Ms Wilson showing her up front approach to a sparse and percussive accompaniment.This truely is an excellent album,that requires to be given a number of listens before the true talent can be appreciated.This will grow on you,and be played periodically from your collection,when the other commerically and talent limited divas have disappeared. Turn off the lights,late at night and listen...you will be drifting between midnight and dawn..a classic sound from the evolving and maturing Ms Wilson.4 1/2 to 5 stars,a worthy addition to your collection.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars learn to love it, March 27, 2003

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AOD (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Light Til Dawn (Audio CD)

So Cassandra's "New Moon Daughter" is a gem too, but this album is less known and, while it didn't make an immediate impression on me, I now listen to it a lot more. There's basically more variety in song style and arrangement and, if you like Cassandra, then just the sound of her voice is heaven. (If you haven't heard her, her voice is about as distinct as Nina Simone's.) The key point with Cassandra is: nobody sounds like her so if she isn't in your collection then nothing like her is in your collection. Her voice is deep and sultry, her music spacious, unrushed -- there's something distinctly southern about it. She is one of Nora Jones' inspirations, but where Nora's voice is a gentle breeze, Cassandra's is a gathering cloud, and there is no lounge sound to Cassandra's music -- the instruments bleed raw notes.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cassandra goes african/cuban/folk/blues, September 25, 2000

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"williedynamite" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Light Til Dawn (Audio CD)

I brought this is after I played New Moon Daughter to death. It remains as my favorite Cassandra Wilson record. With NMD in mind i brought New moon daughter expecting to here the sound that I loved from that album. Boy,I was wrong. it's not that I didn't love Blue light to dawn it took me some time to truly digest where she was coming from musically. Wheras on New Moon,, her sound was very earthy almost a dusty memphis sound. On Blue light the feeling is more afican and blues based. Listening to this album is more like an experience. The sounds on Blue light are very intricate and deep. On children of the night theres a tribal rhythm that combines with Cassandra earthy, smoke voice that is enchanting. Sankofa is an african spiritual song that is done practically accapella. There are also a couple of Robert johnson songs covered by Cassandra. On come on in my kitchen cassandra wails on about a man that some girl got lucky and "stole him back again" very alluring. Hell hound on my tail is another RJ favorite that cassandra redoes to near perfection. But By far my favorite track is the final one the bewitching I can't stand the rain. On it you can really hear and feel how Cassandra's voice is much like an instrument playing along with the music. Blue light to dawn is a very good album, New Moon was perhaps a half step (that's arguable) but definetely an essential for Cassandra Wilson fans.