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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.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
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Al Shackman, Guitar, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Nina Simone, MainArtist - Hal Mooney, Producer - Andrew Benjamin Stroud, ComposerLyricist - Rudy Stevenson, Flute, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Hamilton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lisle Atkinson, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jimmie Cox, ComposerLyricist - Al Shackman, Guitar, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Nina Simone, MainArtist - Hal Mooney, Producer - Rudy Stevenson, Flute, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Hamilton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lisle Atkinson, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Al Shackman, Guitar, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Nina Simone, MainArtist - Hal Mooney, Producer - Rudy Stevenson, Flute, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Cynthia Medley, ComposerLyricist - John Edmondson, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Hamilton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lisle Atkinson, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Al Shackman, Guitar, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Nina Simone, MainArtist - Hal Mooney, Producer - Richard M. Jones, ComposerLyricist - Rudy Stevenson, Flute, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Hamilton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lisle Atkinson, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Al Shackman, Guitar, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Billie Holiday, ComposerLyricist - Nina Simone, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Hal Mooney, Producer - Rudy Stevenson, Flute, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Hamilton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lisle Atkinson, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Al Shackman, Guitar, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Nina Simone, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Hal Mooney, Producer - Rudy Stevenson, Flute, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - William Lawrence Lovelock, ComposerLyricist - Hermann Krasnow, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Hamilton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lisle Atkinson, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Al Shackman, Guitar, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Nina Simone, MainArtist - Hal Mooney, Producer - Rudy Stevenson, Flute, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Hamilton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lisle Atkinson, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Al Shackman, Guitar, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Nina Simone, Vocals, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lewis Allan, ComposerLyricist - Hal Mooney, Producer - Rudy Stevenson, Flute, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Hamilton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lisle Atkinson, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Al Shackman, Guitar, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Nina Simone, Vocals, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hal Mooney, Producer - Rudy Stevenson, Flute, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Hamilton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lisle Atkinson, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
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.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 00:35:51
- Main artists: Nina Simone
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve Reissues
- Genre: Jazz
© 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2013 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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