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Thunderbird

Cassandra Wilson Format: Audio CD
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Cassandra Wilson ~ Thunderbird

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With a series of terrific albums, Cassandra Wilson has established herself as one of the day's great vocalists and, in branching out from jazz into blues and folk and pop, paved the way for genre-crossing stars including Norah Jones. But the Mississippi native has rarely sounded as relaxed or winning as she does on "Thunderbird," which teams her with the stalwart O Brother Where Art Thou? producer T Bone Burnett. Recorded mostly in Los Angeles, the album is noteworthy not only for its roomy, atmospheric sound and experimental touches, but also for its improvised-in-the-studio approach. Working with innovative Burnett regulars including keyboardist (and co-producer) Keefus Ciancia, guitarist Marc Ribot, and drumming legend Jim Keltner, Wilson delivers such offbeat delights as "Going to Mexico," a dreamlike, funk-tinged tune built on a sample of "Hey Pocky A-Way" by New Orleans' Wild Tchoupitoulas. Eschewing the well-known pop tunes she usually covers, she lends her huskily seductive vocals to Jakob Dylan's wistful "Closer to You" and Burnett's dark "Strike a Match," to which she claimed co-ownership by changing the time signature and adding a lyric. The inspired contributors also include programmer and bassist Mike Elizondo (producer of Fiona Apple's "Extraordinary Machine") and guitarist Colin Linden, who wails on a gripping extended reading of Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Easy Rider" and duets with Wilson on the cowboy classic "Red River Valley," which eloquently sums up her ability to breathe jazz meaning into anything she chooses. --Lloyd Sachs

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.27 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ BLUE NOTE
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ September 2, 2000
  • Label ‏ : ‎ BLUE NOTE
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000EGDN0E
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • sbissell3
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Best, Simply The Best, Singer Going
    Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2007
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    In an era where woman singers are more often judged on appearance than artistic merit Cassandra Wilson (who by the way is a major babe) continues to carve her own path and does it brilliantly. I've said it before and I'll just repeat it; Cassandra Wilson is the best singer, in any style, of her generation, period.
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  • F. noyes
    5.0 out of 5 stars The inimitable
    Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2008
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    Cassandra Wilson is the blues, soul singer extraordinaire....such a stylist. Get this album and thank your lucky stars you had the opportunity to listen to one of the finest singers alive.
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  • Andre S. Grindle
    4.0 out of 5 stars Cassandrea Strikes A Chord....Again
    Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2010
    I am not sure if it was the overwelming critical acclaim or what but most of my life I never listened to a Cassandra Wilson album all the way through. No doubt she's dropped some serious classics already but I only heard snippets of them through my dad's collection. Her musical style wasn't exactly speaking to me during her earlier years primarily because I was associating her with a decade that,at the time I found needlessly heavy handed and downbeat musically. My introduction to this album wasn't at all meaningful either because I threw it into a handfull of CD's I purchased at a get 2,get 2 free sale. So there was little to no expectations. Frankly when all is said in done my comments on this album have to start with...I'm surprised. Where the album goes right is not so much that Wilson bends genres but in the WAY she BLENDS genres;I want to emphasize the difference. Her music starts from the blues up-which means that there's a sonic layer of jazzy,folk and than funk and hip-hop on top of that. Her blend of genres treat them like a link in a chain and her husky,expressive voice really does work well on the kind of music she's doing. In all honesty "Go To Mexico"-with it's great upfront bassline,"Poet","Strike A Match" and "Tarot" are downright funky,and well written too. She plays acoustic guitar on these songs but at the same time she completely avoids the clishe'd "naturalness" sound that an artist of her kind could so easily fall into. T Bone Burnett,new at the production board for her on this outing actually does an excellent job keeping her classic sound alive and well-mainly because the production on this album is not at all removed from what I'd already heard from her in the past. The starker songs where she's mainly only accompanying herself such as "Red River Valley" and (to a degree) a version of "Easy Rider" benifit from the strong presense of blues reverb which again add a strong level of anticipation in the music. Where this album loses me to an extent is where her music always lost me in the past. The music is very hollow around the middle. I don't mean it's incomplete but considering her occasional use of hip-hop beats with her jazz and blues base there are occasions here (not on every song though) where there are huge gaps in the harmonic and melodic ranges of the songs,making them sound a little drier than they deserved. Her blues may not always have a distinct emotional temperature musically but even in those moments her often reflective and wandering vocal delivery,as with Billie Holiday and others before her transform any less then excellent music into a totally different experience.
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  • Nse Ette
    5.0 out of 5 stars A real thunderbird!!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2008
    It happened at work one day about 10 years ago. A colleague of mine was playing some Jazz music at the office and I heard what sounded like the Jazz/Blues original version of Cyndi Lauper's "Time after time". Only problem was I knew it was Cyndi that did the original so I asked who it was that was singing. "Oh, that's Cassandra Wilson" she said, "Haven't you heard of her before?"

    Well, I never had, so I went out, got, and fell in love with the CD it came off, "Traveling miles", especially the African flourishes on the duet with Angelique Kidjo "Run the voodoo down". Next I heard from her was the brooding beauty, "You move me" from the excellent "Love Jones" soundtrack.

    That's the Cassandra Wilson magic for you, with her dusky sensual voice and her eclectic flourishes. "Thunderbird" is no different, a Jazz/Blues/Folk take on songs done by others. Having never heard any of the originals, I just went with the flow.

    At 10 tracks, she cuts right to the chase. Opening cut, "Go to Mexico" is a groovy song, rich in percussion, lovely harmonies, some skat singing, and almost falsetto vocals from Wilson. A real beauty and an excellent way to open the album. "Closer to you" (originally done by Yakob Dylan) is a dreamy affair, with lilting percussion and her soothing vocals, almost Trip hop-like. Stunning!

    "Easy rider" is a more stripped horn sprinkled initially folky affair which progresses into a delicate Blues number, and "It would be so easy" is a more upbeat song with a groovy bassline. "Red river valley" is an almost acapella hymnal folky ballad with just electric slide guitar accompanying her vocals.

    "Poet" is a brooding groovy song with a sketchy bassline initially, while "I want to be loved" is guitar Blues which finds Wilson singing in a slightly upper register in parts.

    "Lost" is a beautiful guitar ballad (one of my favourites, but really, they are all my favourites) which sounds like it should be on some exotic movie soundtrack. "Strike a match" features skittery drums and a deep bassline, with lovely strummed guitars. Stunning! Closing is "Tarot", another song with a groovy bassline, some great harmonising, and interesting musical movements (there is a great sax solo).

    Hypnotic and beautiful, Cassandra Wilson is a real thunderbird.
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  • Will Lowe
    3.0 out of 5 stars Too Many Pop Covers
    Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2007
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    Simply, this isn't one of Cassandra's best. Her last 2-3 cd's have relied too much on pop covers of various merit which really diminishes the effectiveness of one of the most marvellous voices in jazz-blues. I have seen her live several times and she outstanding as a performer and unequalled in the jazz-blues genre, but straying so far (for a wider commercial appeal?) from her blues roots only serves to murk her vocal and musical identity. My fear is this wonderful vocalist will end up in the same situation as Etta James who abandoned her Texas blues roots for a not very convincing or engaging party rock-blues repertoire.
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  • Client d'Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thunderbird Dixon Willie
    Reviewed in France on October 15, 2016
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    bonjour, j'ai bien reçu en excellent état Thunderbird Dixon Willie par Cassandra Wilson et je vous en remercie vivement. cordialement. j-l vavasseur
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  • Goldenears
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2016
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    She is a treasure
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  • Torben jensen
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2016
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    ok
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  • La Cabane du Pêcheur - Bistrot am Hafen
    4.0 out of 5 stars Mit einem herzlichen Gruss an die Wiener T-Bone Fans
    Reviewed in Germany on September 10, 2011
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    Ich war ihrer etwas überdrüssig geworden, bin aber durch den Soundtrack zu My Blueberry Nights Harvest Moon von New Moon Daughter wieder auf den Geschmack gekommen, und habe beim Nachbearbeiten die Antwort auf die Frage gefunden, was kd lang, Madeleine Peyroux und Cas Wilson verbindet, zumindest verband - was auch auf der Hand liegt : der Produzent natürlich; und das ist hier nicht mehr Craig Steel, sondern der Freund T-Bone; der eine oder andere hat in den vorhergehenden Beiträgen schon auf die Widersprüchlichkeiten verwiesen, sich sogar dazu verstiegen, ihr eine neue Offenheit zu attestieren; ich kann da nur wiederholen : Mit Sicherheit erst anhören, auch wenn Red River Valley den Preis allein wert sein könnte - aber das ist nun tatsächlich sehr persönlich und an den traditionellen Vorträgen angelehnt; und in dem Zusammenhang, V-Lee, noch ein weiterer Hinweis auf Clint und damit auf Johnny Mercer und den Soundtrack zu Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - kein Funk, aber Diane Krahl, Cas, Rosemary Clooney und natürlich Josh Redman - check it out - aber holt Euch vorher etwas Braunes Flüssiges zur Unterstützung - very smooth !!
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  • くろうまん
    4.0 out of 5 stars いつもよりポップ・・・
    Reviewed in Japan on April 16, 2006
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    いつもよりポップ・・・というのが第一印象。

    ギタリストもMark Ribot以外はColin Linden, Keb Moといった

    カントリー、ブルース畑の人たちが参加。

    太鼓もJim Keltnerとかが叩いています。

    しかしながら、メンバーが変わっても、

    カサンドラはカサンドラ。

    ブルーノートにおける

    彼女の世界観は円熟し、

    どのような素材をあつかっても、

    変わらないことを本作は証明しています。

    私はブルーノートのカサンドラが大好きですが、

    アーティストとしては、

    そろそろレーベルを移籍したほうが

    いいのかもしれません。

    #5,8といったギタリストとのデュオもいいですが、

    Reginald Vealのベースがとてつもなくカッコいい

    #2,4,10とかもお勧めです。
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