Closer to You: The Pop Side is a compilation album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, released in 2009.[ Allmusic entry for Closer to You.] Retrieved December 2009.
Reception Jeff Simon of The Buffalo News stated, "Bless her, Cassandra Wilson has always done this. Even when she was the Queen of Brooklyn's thorny M-Base jazz radicals a couple decades ago -- and not yet the greatest living jazz singer as she is now -- her discs would have one or two pop hits on them, interpreted in the most inimitable way... Call it ultra-smart marketing if you want but there's a lot of marvelous music here."
Track listing "Love Is Blindness" (Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.) – 4:54 "Time After Time" (Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper) – 4:07 "Fragile" (Sting) – 4:36 "Closer to You" (Jakob Dylan) – 5:48 "Last Train to Clarksville" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) – 5:16 "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) – 6:05 "Tupelo Honey" (Van Morrison) – 5:37 "Harvest Moon" (Neil Young) – 5:02 "I Can't Stand the Rain" (Don Bryant, Bernard Miller, Ann Peebles) – 5:28 "Lay Lady Lay" (Bob Dylan) – 5:08 "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) – 5:49
Chart performance Chart (2009) Peakposition US Jazz Albums (Billboard)12
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