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Belly of the Sun

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Released
  
February 26, 2002

Length
  
60:09

Belly of the Sun(2002)
  
Glamoured(2003)

Producer
  
Cassandra Wilson

Recorded
  
Clarksdale, MS

Label
  
Blue Note

Release date
  
26 February 2002

Genre
  
Jazz

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Artists
  
Cassandra Wilson, Cal Tjader

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

  1. "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) – 6:05
  2. "Justice" (Cassandra Wilson) – 5:27
  3. "Darkness on the Delta" (Jay Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes) – 3:47
  4. "Waters of March" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) – 4:26
  5. "You Gotta Move" (Mississippi Fred McDowell) – 2:44
  6. "Only a Dream in Rio" (James Taylor) – 4:32
  7. "Just Another Parade" (Wilson) – 6:05
  8. "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) – 5:48
  9. "Shelter from the Storm" (Bob Dylan) – 5:17
  10. "Drunk as Cooter Brown" (Wilson) – 4:58
  11. "Show Me a Love" (Jesse Robinson, Wilson) – 3:49
  12. "Road So Clear" (Rhonda Richmond) – 5:22
  13. "Hot Tamales" (Robert Johnson) – 1:43
  14. "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

  • Cassandra Wilson – vocals; surdo, guitar (6, 7)
  • Marvin Sewell – guitars (1, 2, 6-14)
  • Kevin Breit – mandolin, guitars, vocals, bouzouki, omnichord (1, 2, 5−10, 14)
  • Mark Peterson – basses (1, 2, 6-12, 14)
  • Jeffrey Haynes – percussion, plastic tub, steel pans (1, 2, 5-8, 10-14)
  • Cyro Baptista – percussion, vocals (1, 2, 5-12, 14)
  • Xavyon Jamison – drums (1, 2, 6, 11, 12)

    • Guest artists

  • "Boogaloo" Ames – piano (3)
  • Children of M.S.44 (NYC) – vocals (4)
  • Rhonda Richmond – vocals, piano (5, 7, 12)
  • Richard Johnston – guitar, vocals (5)
  • Jewell Bass, Vasti Jackson, Patrice Moncell, Henry Rhodes – vocals (6)
  • India.Arie – vocals (7)
  • Jesse Robinson – electric guitar (11)
  • Olu Dara – trumpet (12)

    • Songs

    1The Weight6:05
    2Justice5:27
    3Darkness on the Delta3:48

    References

    Belly of the Sun Wikipedia
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