NINA SIMONE [Tell Me More] FONTANA [stereo] '65 HOLLAND

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Feb 23, 2010 Sold Date

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1965 FONTANA Records 858 004

HOLLAND * STEREO
"PASTEL BLUES"
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VINYL is EX+ a couple of light marks top shape!
COVER is VG(+) light edge/ring wear, bottom seam 4" split, cc small wobc
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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.
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