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A combo live studio album nuff said captures nina at the 1968 westbury music fair performing songs by the bee gees please read me and in the morning and songs from nina simone sings the blues to an adoring audience.
It might be surprising to read now that she felt unfulfilled as a jazz artist and would have rather been famous for her piano playing but that s only because as the audience it s easy for us to say what someone should do with their talent and career.
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Pouring out through a voice as rich as fertile earth itself the 12 songs on nina simone sings the blues feel like they weren t created but rather have always existed incubating beneath layers of soil until simone decided she d harvest them to share with the world.
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Sitting at rca studios to record nina simone sings the blues in december 1966 and january 1967 simone was in her prime.
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Unlike her previous albums with the smaller labels of bethlehem records colpix and phillips rca s size and its signature artist harry belafonte meant that simone s music and message would reach her biggest most diverse audience to date.
Maybe it s hard to conceptualize the fruition of these songs because the blues as a sound as a genre as a feeling.
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