Belly of the Sun
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| Studio album by Cassandra Wilson | ||||
| Released | February 26, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | Clarksdale, MS | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 60:09 | |||
| Label | Blue Note | |||
| Producer | Cassandra Wilson | |||
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| All About Jazz | favorable |
Belly of the Sun is an album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson. It was released on the Blue Note label in 2002.
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.
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.
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