Released February 26, 2002 Length 60:09 | Release date 26 February 2002 | |
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Nominations Echo Award for Jazz Production Similar Cassandra Wilson albums, Jazz albums |
Belly of the Sun is an album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson. It was released on the Blue Note label in 2002.
Contents
The title of the CD comes from a line in "Only a Dream in Rio" that Wilson had translated to Yoruba "... just to hear what it sounded like and it was explained [to Wilson] that in the Yoruba translation you would say 'in the belly of the sun.'"
India.Arie is a guest vocalist on "Just Another Parade".
Recording was done in the Clarksdale, Mississippi train station.
Belly of the sun
Track listing
- "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) – 6:05
- "Justice" (Cassandra Wilson) – 5:27
- "Darkness on the Delta" (Jay Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes) – 3:47
- "Waters of March" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) – 4:26
- "You Gotta Move" (Mississippi Fred McDowell) – 2:44
- "Only a Dream in Rio" (James Taylor) – 4:32
- "Just Another Parade" (Wilson) – 6:05
- "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) – 5:48
- "Shelter from the Storm" (Bob Dylan) – 5:17
- "Drunk as Cooter Brown" (Wilson) – 4:58
- "Show Me a Love" (Jesse Robinson, Wilson) – 3:49
- "Road So Clear" (Rhonda Richmond) – 5:22
- "Hot Tamales" (Robert Johnson) – 1:43
- "Corcovado" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)(For Japan only)
There was a promotional version of this album distributed before the album was released that contained 2 extra tracks that were not included on the final release. The promotional copy has "Rock Me Baby" (B. B. King) After "Shelter from the Storm" and before "Cooter Brown" and "Little Lion" (Caetano Veloso) after "Cooter Brown" and before "Show Me a Love". The promotional version was a regular pressed and silkscreened disc (not a CD-R) and came in a cardboard sleeve and had no album artwork.
Personnel
Guest artists
Songs
1The Weight6:05
2Justice5:27
3Darkness on the Delta3:48