And it's a little pride issue with me, that I can meet his eyes and not get glamoured.

The project reunited her with producer Fabrizio Sotti, with whom she worked with on "Glamoured" 10 years ago.

The Glamoured (Gile na Gile)

She, too, was singing love songs, most of them from her recent album, "Glamoured" (Blue Note), and like Mr. Green she drew songs from soul and country.

CASSANDRA WILSON: "Glamoured" (Blue Note).

And these, too, broke in fragments and bred others, till in a little while the place, to their glamoured sight, was a seething sea of snakes, that crawled, hissed, and knotted themselves in knots.

Besides, we don't even know what we are looking for: it could be another slot for a west-pick, like Bane, or a stone that gets pressed, or a special word that must be said, a glamoured key, or a hundred other things.

While her last album was mostly covers in the service of a Southern theme, her next, "Glamoured," due out in a month, is covers for the sake of covers; she sings songs by Sting, Bob Dylan and Abbey Lincoln over her typically slinky, misty group sound.