Cassandra Wilson's "death letter" delivered to the "real detective"

Jazz singer Cbadandra Wilson has chosen the song "The Death Letter" from Son House as the opening theme of the third series of the popular HBO series. True detective. Presented in the United States on Jan. 13, the crime anthology features Mahershala Ali, Carmen Ejogo, Stephen Dorff, Scoot McNairy and Ray Fisher, and is again written by Nic Pizzolatto.

"Death Letter", also known as "Death Letter Blues", was written, recorded and broadcast by Son House on Columbia in 1965. It became a signature song of the band. Mississippi Blues, produced by the famous John Hammond with Frank Driggs. In the lyrics, the narrator learns of the death of his lover by a letter delivered early one morning.

Wilson's version, changing male and female characters, was part of his revered album Blue Note of 1995, New Moon Daughter, produced by Craig Street. The album was at the top of Billboard's jazz charts and was among the top 10 results of the magazine's Heatseekers survey.

The soundtrack of the new season of the Southern Gothic series was curated by T Bone Burnett, who also wrote his score. In an interview with Esquire, he says that Wilson's music will be a recurring feature throughout the new series. "We start and end the season with a deep and deep clbadical American vernacular," he notes.

Geoffrey Himes, reviewing New moon girl at the time of its appearance in Rolling Stone, noticed in the song: "The mortality is … strangely evoked in Death Letter", a blues of Delta of the mentor of Robert Johnson, Son House. On a bbad line borrowed from 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine', a thorny acoustic guitar and a quivering electric slide create a deathbed atmosphere. "

Before Wilson's version, "Death Letter" had attracted the covers of Mike Cooper and Geoff & Maria Muldaur, both in 1969, and the Blues Band in 1979. Subsequently, it was included in the 1998 set of the Derek Trucks Band Out of the madness and on the From Stijl 2000 album by the White Stripes. Among others, John Mellencamp also reduced the 2003 budget. Trouble No More and in 2014 by Johnny Winter for his retreat album.

The "death letter" of Cbadandra Wilson is on her New moon girl album, which can be purchased here.