Album Rating: 5.0
This and I Put a Spell... are both essential dude, enjoy!
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Well done mate, props and pos. What an excellent album.
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Album Rating: 4.5
@TWIG
Thanks man and agreed with Infamous, both albums are brilliant.
@DrJohn
Thanks dude.
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Album Rating: 4.5
yeah Put A Spell is great too. i tend to prefer her stuff without strings. she's a great pianist. this, Wild Is The Wind and Sings The Blues are all amazing but I haven't heard a dud from her yet
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Album Rating: 5.0
I haven't got Sings the Blues but I do have Little Blue Girl which has some crackers on it too.
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Album Rating: 4.5
yeah another good one! no one quite like her, before or after. this incredible mix of jazz, soul and folk. and very very few people were writing songs like Four Women back then, addressing subjects like that so directly.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Indeed. Same case with Strange Fruit on this album. Not easy for a black woman to write and perform such stuff back then.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Strange Fruit is devastating
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Album Rating: 4.5
definitely. that one is even more remarkable cos Billie Holiday did that decades earlier. i always thought that relied more on metaphors while Nina went more direct but it's pretty clear cut too.
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Album Rating: 4.5
And the funny thing is that I watched an interview of Nina Simone the other day and she said she wasn't a big fan of Holiday's voice.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Gonna go out and hunt down Sings the Blues at old music shops next week. Hot damn I love this woman.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Strange fruit is utterly devastating. [2]
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Strange Fruit is a poem first published back in 1937 by a school teacher named Abel Meeropol. Holiday performed and recorded it a couple of years later.
Edit: In fact, the majority of Holiday’s and Simone’s repertoire was not written or composed by them.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Thanks for the info Doc. Writing that poem and later on singing the song was pretty heroic for that time.
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Heroic indeed, in contrast with those promoting apples or apples promoting 'em or front page full of reviews for it.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Signs of the Times my friend.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I just listened to it a week ago and the album is just brilliant; so is your review manos, one of your best
ones I'd say. Nina needs more love on here.
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Really interesting read Manosg, pos'd. I've honestly never listened to anything like this before in my life...it's about damn time I change that.
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Album Rating: 4.5
@deslad
Thanks! Glad to see the love for Nina Simone and yeah she needs more love around here.
@Judio!
Thanks man. Glad to see you giving this one a chance.
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Great review manosg. Checking this now and its a lot bluesier than I expected which rules.
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