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She calls herself a song stylist. Not a jazz singer, or a pop vocalist, or even an R&B crooner. Nancy Wilson is a ``song stylist.''
``That description allows me to sing anything,'' Wilson says from her condo near Los Angeles. ``It's about what songs strike me. I don't think of music in categories, I think of songs.''
And this 41-year music veteran knows exactly how to caress lyrics, from the smooth yet rigid vocal snaps she gives each word on her debut single, ``Guess Who I Saw Today?,'' to her mournful cries on Johnny Mercer's ``When October Goes,'' on 1991's ``With My Lover Beside Me'' album.
That was a special record for Wilson, a collection of previously ...