New Moon Daughter

New Moon Daughter is a studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson that was released by Blue Note in 1995. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine jazz album chart and also won the Grammy Award as the Best Jazz Vocal Performance.^[1]

New Moon Daughter

1995

Turtle Creek Barn at Bearsville (Woodstock, New York)
Sound on Sound (New York)

Jazz, blues

61:26

Blue Note

Craig Street

Background[edit]

In an interview for New York magazine, Wilson explained that the album's name comes from an old Ashanti proverb—"Sickness comes with the waning moon; the new moon cures disease". The album contains twelve songs, five of which were written by Wilson.^[2]

Appearances in other media[edit]

The song "Death Letter" from the album was used as an opening theme in the third season of television series True Detective released in 2019.^[17]

Cassandra Wilson – vocals, acoustic guitar

– percussion, Jew's-Harp, shaker

Cyro Baptista

Dougie Bowne – percussion, drums, whistle, vibraphone

– Hammond organ

Gary Breit

– acoustic & electric guitar, banjo, bouzouki

Kevin Breit

– acoustic & electric guitar

Brandon Ross

– violin

Charles Burnham

– accordion

Tony Cedras

– cornet

Graham Haynes

Lawrence "Butch" Morris – cornet

Jeff Haynes – percussion, bongos

Peepers – background vocals

Mark Peterson – bass

– bass

Lonnie Plaxico

Gib Wharton – pedal steel guitar

– guitar (1)

New Moon Daughter