Nina Simone - Pastel Blues (2020 reissue) - LP Vinyl

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c0022401
UPC:
602507190828

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Artist:
Nina Simone
Album:
Pastel Blues (2020 reissue)
Format:
12" Vinyl
UPC:
602507190828

Description

2020 reissue, remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging - If this is blues, it's blues in the Billie Holiday sense, not the Muddy Waters one. This is one of Nina Simone's more subdued mid-'60s LPs, putting the emphasis on her piano rather than band arrangements. It's rather slanted toward torch-blues ballads like "Strange Fruit," "Trouble in Mind," Billie Holiday's own composition "Tell Me More and More and Then Some," and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out." Simone's then-husband, Andy Stroud, wrote "Be My Husband," an effective adaptation of a traditional blues chant. By far the most impressive track is her frantic ten-minute rendition of the traditional "Sinnerman," an explosive tour de force that maybe exceeds anything else on the album.
A1Be My Husband
A2Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
A3End Of The Line
A4Trouble In Mind
A5Tell Me More And More And Then Some
A6Chilly Winds Don't Blow
B1Ain't No Use
B2Strange Fruit
B3Sinnerman