Time: 52:27
Size: 120.1 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1987
Art: Front
[3:01] 1. My Baby Just Cares For Me
[3:17] 2. Sugar In My Bowl
[6:00] 3. Fodder On My Wings
[3:54] 4. Be My Husband
[3:37] 5. Just Like A Woman
[3:19] 6. Balm In Gilead
[4:30] 7. Stars
[2:54] 8. If You Pray Right (Heaven Belongs To You)
[7:15] 9. If You Knew Let It Be Me
[4:51] 10. Four Women
[5:02] 11. Mississippi Goddam
[4:40] 12. Baltimore
Drums – Cornell McFadden; Guitar, Bass [Electric] – Arthur Adams; Vocals, Piano – Nina Simone. Recorded live at Vine St.
Nina Simone's live performances have a power and an intimacy all their own, and those qualities stand out in this 1987 recording from Vine Street. It's a stunning form of cabaret singing, dramatic without melodrama, and with roots that reach to Billie Holiday's surprising success with "Strange Fruit." Simone can add profundity to a usually carefree song like "My Baby Just Cares for Me," and the range of the performance broadens with the startling "Be My Husband," a simple pattern reduced to the naked force of a field holler, and the stark hymn "Balm in Gilead." Carefully chosen songs from Randy Newman, Bob Dylan, and Janis Ian achieve new dimensions in Simone's treatments. Her own deeply felt "Four Women" and "Mississippi Goddam" are potent and enduring protests. There's some effectively spare accompaniment from guitar, bass, and drums, but Simone's piano is the essential instrumental voice, from slow barrelhouse to Bach. ~Stuart Broomer
Nina Simone's live performances have a power and an intimacy all their own, and those qualities stand out in this 1987 recording from Vine Street. It's a stunning form of cabaret singing, dramatic without melodrama, and with roots that reach to Billie Holiday's surprising success with "Strange Fruit." Simone can add profundity to a usually carefree song like "My Baby Just Cares for Me," and the range of the performance broadens with the startling "Be My Husband," a simple pattern reduced to the naked force of a field holler, and the stark hymn "Balm in Gilead." Carefully chosen songs from Randy Newman, Bob Dylan, and Janis Ian achieve new dimensions in Simone's treatments. Her own deeply felt "Four Women" and "Mississippi Goddam" are potent and enduring protests. There's some effectively spare accompaniment from guitar, bass, and drums, but Simone's piano is the essential instrumental voice, from slow barrelhouse to Bach. ~Stuart Broomer
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