ProJazz.net

New Moon Daughter is a studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, released in 1995 on Blue Note. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart in 1996.

Reception

Critical reception to New Moon Daughter was highly positive, with many critics comparing it favorably to its widely-celebrated predecessor, Blue Light ’til Dawn, and hailing it as one of the year’s best. Gary Giddins wrote in 2008 for The New Yorker that both albums “uncovered her Mississippi roots, hardly noted in her earlier work, and freed her to revisit more recent pop songs, from the Monkees to U2…She also emerged as a nonpareil blues singer – a natural, reclaiming the Delta tradition of Robert Johnson and Son House. Even today, those albums convey the excitement of an artist coming into her own, testing her mettle and rejoicing in its supple strength.”

Track listing:
1. “Strange Fruit” (Lewis Allan) 5:33
2. “Love Is Blindness” (Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen, Jr.) 4:53
3. “Solomon Sang” (Cassandra Wilson) 5:56
4. “Death Letter” (Son House) 4:12
5. “Skylark” (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) 4:08
6. “Find Him” (Wilson) 4:37
7. “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (Hank Williams) 4:50
8. “Last Train to Clarksville” (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) 5:15
9. “Until” (Wilson) 6:29
10. “A Little Warm Death” (Wilson) 5:43
11. “Memphis” (Wilson) 5:04
12. “Harvest Moon” (Neil Young)

Personnel:
Cassandra Wilson – vocals, acoustic guitar
Cyro Baptista – percussion, Jew’s-Harp, shaker
Dougie Bowne – percussion, drums, whistle, vibraphone
Gary Breit – Hammond organ
Kevin Breit – acoustic & electric guitar, banjo, bouzouki
Brandon Ross – acoustic & electric guitar
Charles Burnham – violin
Tony Cedras– accordion
Graham Haynes – cornet
Lawrence “Butch” Morris – cornet
Jeff Haynes – percussion, bongos
Peepers – background vocals
Mark Peterson – bass
Lonnie Plaxico – bass
Gib Wharton – pedal steel guitar
Chris Whitley – guitar (1)

_________________

Released: 1995
Recorded: The Turtle Creek Barn, Bearsville, NY and
Sound On Sound, New York City
Length: 61:26
Label: Blue Note
Producer: Craig Street