Pastel Blues

by Nina Simone

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	05/29/2012
Label:	Music On Vinyl
UPC:	0600753369791

Tracks

1. Be My Husband
2. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
3. End of the Line
4. Trouble in Mind
5. Tell Me More and More and Then Some
6. Chilly Winds Don't Blow
7. Ain't No Use
8. Strange Fruit
9. Sinnerman

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nina Simone   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals
Lisle Atkinson   Bass (Upright),Bass,Double Bass
Rudy Stevenson   Flute,Guitar
Al Schackman   Guitar,Harmonica
Bobby Hamilton   Drums

Technical Credits

Hal Mooney   Audio Production,Producer
Traditional   Composer
Andy Stroud   Composer
Sidney Wyche   Composer
Billie Holiday   Composer
Irving Mills   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Cynthia Medley   Composer
Erik Darling   Composer
Janis Joplin   Composer
Lewis Allan   Composer
Ronnie Gilbert   Composer
Richard M. Jones   Composer
Jimmy Cox   Composer
Rudy Stevenson   Composer
Nina Simone   Arranger,Composer
Bryan Koniarz   Producer
Ken Druker   Executive Producer
Barney Bigard   Composer
Fred Hellerman   Composer
Lee Hays   Composer
Leroy Kirkland   Composer
Jimmie Cox   Composer
Hecky Krasnow   Composer
L. Allen   Composer
John Edmondson   Composer
Hollis King   Art Direction
James Cox   Composer
Maurice Seymour   Cover Photo
William Lovelock   Composer,Composer
Chic Medley   Composer
Jeff Willens   Mastering
Sherniece Smith   Art Producer
Kazumi Matsumoto   Series Design
Andrew Benjamin Stroud   Composer
Hermann Krasnow   Composer