Nina Simone Pastel Blues (180 Gram Vinyl) [Import] K-Pop

Nina Simone Pastel Blues (180 Gram Vinyl) [Import] K-PopIf 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

I had the strange notion of making a requiem mass for drums

A classic of no-holds-barred Chicago slide guitar boogie & blues by the city's legendary trio

ordered and reassembled in the studio

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Raymond Carver

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yearning feeling but never boils over

Pickpocket finds the songwriter calling upon her musical friends

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while "Sad Statue" sports a guitar riff that sounds like a Greek bouzouki

Sounding like a mixture of rare groove anthems like Gwen Mcraes All This Love Im Giving