Closer to You: The Pop Side

Closer to You: The Pop Side
Compilation album by
Cassandra Wilson
ReleasedApril 7, 2009
GenrePop
Length57:50
LabelBlue Note
ProducerCassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson chronology
Loverly
(2008) 		Closer to You: The Pop Side
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
All About Jazz(favorable)[2]
The Buffalo News[3]
PopMatters7/10[4]

Closer to You: The Pop Side is a compilation album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, released in 2009.[5]

Reception

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

  1. "Love Is Blindness" (Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.) — 4:54
  2. "Time After Time" (Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper) – 4:07
  3. "Fragile" (Sting) — 4:36
  4. "Closer to You" (Jakob Dylan) — 5:48
  5. "Last Train to Clarksville" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) — 5:16
  6. "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) – 6:05
  7. "Tupelo Honey" (Van Morrison) - 5:37
  8. "Harvest Moon" (Neil Young) — 5:02
  9. "I Can't Stand the Rain" (Don Bryant, Bernard Miller, Ann Peebles) - 5:28
  10. "Lay Lady Lay" (Bob Dylan) — 5:08
  11. "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) – 5:49

Chart performance

Chart (2009) Peak
position
US Jazz Albums (Billboard)[6] 12

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ All About Jazz review
  3. ^ a b Jeff, Simon (5 April 2009). "Listening Post / Brief reviews of select releases". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  4. ^ Layman, Will (8 June 2009). "Cassandra Wilson: Closer to You: The Pop Side". PopMatters. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  5. ^ Allmusic entry for Closer to You. Retrieved December 2009.
  6. ^ "CASSANDRA WILSON: CHART HISTORY". Billboard. billboard.com. Retrieved 19 May 2019.