Glamoured
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Glamoured is an album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 singer Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her...

. It was released on the Blue Note
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 label in 2003.

Track listing

  1. "Fragile" (Sting) — 4:37
  2. "Sleight of Time" (Cassandra Wilson
    Cassandra Wilson
    Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her...

    ) — 4:12
  3. "I Want More" (Fabrizio Sotti, Wilson) — 4:21
  4. "If Loving You Is Wrong
    (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
    " I Don't Want to Be Right" is a soul song written by Stax Records songwriters Homer Banks, Carl Hampton and Raymond Jackson. It has been performed by many singers, most notably by Luther Ingram, whose version topped the R&B chart for four weeks and rose to number three on the Billboard Hot 100...

    " (Homer Banks
    Homer Banks
    Homer Banks was an African-American songwriter, singer and record producer, best known for his songs for Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s...

    , C. Hampton, Raymond Jackson) — 5:29
  5. "Lay Lady Lay
    Lay Lady Lay
    "Lay Lady Lay" is a song written by Bob Dylan and originally released in 1969 on his Nashville Skyline album. Like many of the tracks on the album, Dylan sings the song in a low croon, rather than in the high nasal singing style associated with his earlier recordings...

    " (Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

    ) — 5:08
  6. "Crazy
    Crazy (Willie Nelson song)
    "Crazy" is a ballad composed by Willie Nelson. It has been recorded by several artists, most notably by Patsy Cline, whose version was a #2 country hit in 1962....

    " (Willie Nelson
    Willie Nelson
    Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

    ) — 3:02
  7. "What Is It?" (Wilson) — 3:19
  8. "Heaven Knows" (Wilson) — 5:06
  9. "Honey Bee" (Muddy Waters
    Muddy Waters
    McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...

    ) — 4:48
  10. "Broken Drum" (Wilson) — 4:14
  11. "On This Train" (Sotti, Wilson) — 4:37
  12. "Throw It Away" (Abbey Lincoln
    Abbey Lincoln
    Anna Marie Wooldridge , better known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. Lincoln was unusual in that she wrote and performed her own compositions, expanding the expectations of jazz audiences.-Biography:Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was one of many...

    ) — 4:36

Personnel

  • Cassandra Wilson – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Terri Lyne Carrington – drums
  • Jeff Haynes – percussion
  • Calvin "Fuzz" Jones – bass
  • Gregoire Maret – harmonica
  • Herlin Riley
    Herlin Riley
    Herlin Riley is an American Neo-bop jazz drummer. Along with other notable musicians such as Wynton Marsalis and Wessel Anderson, he is a member of the New York jazz group, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra....

    – drums, washboard
  • Brandon Ross – banjo, guitar
  • Fabrizio Sotti – guitar
  • Reginald Veal – bass

Production notes
  • Cassandra Wilson – producer
  • Fabrizio Sotti – producer
  • Bruce Lundvall – executive producer
  • Sean Macke – engineer
  • Eric Butler – engineer, mixing
  • Chris Athens – mastering
  • Peter Doris – assistant engineer
  • Kent Bruce – assistant engineer
  • Gordon Jee – creative director, creative design
  • Judy Jefferson – production coordination
  • Donald Thomas – production coordination
  • Naomi Kaltman – photography

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
2003 Billboard Heatseekers 16
2004 Billboard Top Jazz Albums 2
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