Hellhound on My Trail

Cassandra Wilson · 1993 (year to be confirmed)

Context

Cover of a Robert Johnson blues on Blue Light 'til Dawn, Cassandra Wilson's first album on Blue Note, produced by Craig Street. The album abandons electric instruments for acoustic arrangements and marks her critical and popular success; here, the voice is accompanied by a guitar and Olu Dara's cornet.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to M-Base, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of M-Base: Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, AACM.

By the same artist

• Square Roots (1985)

Sources

• EN: Blue Light 'til Dawn

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