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Nina Simone - Pastel Blues
Sold Date:
February 25, 2019
Start Date:
January 4, 2019
Final Price:
£14.50
(GBP)
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General
Article name:
Pastel Blues
Genre:
Jazz
Product type:
LP (Vinyl)
Label:
Verve
Number of tracks:
9
Duration:
35:37
Tracklist LP - 1
1. Nina Simone - Be My Husband
3:23
2. Nina Simone - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
2:39
3. Nina Simone - End of the Line
2:55
4. Nina Simone - Trouble in Mind
2:41
5. Nina Simone - Tell Me More and More and Then Some
3:08
6. Nina Simone - Chilly Winds Don't Blow
4:01
7. Nina Simone - Ain't No Use
3:01
8. Nina Simone - Strange Fruit
3:30
9. Nina Simone - Sinnerman
10:19
Description
Description
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 dwarfs everything else on the album. [Pastel Blues was re-released on LP in 2016.] ~ Richie Unterberger
Richie Unterberger
Contributors Artist: Nina Simone Record Label: Verve
