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Billie Holiday – Lady Sings The Blues (VG+/VG+) – LP, EU 2017
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Lady Sings The Blues is an LP by Billie Holiday from 2017 released on the Not Now Music label.
About this album
Lady Sings the Blues distils Billie Holiday’s late-period artistry into a searing set of jazz and blues standards. Issued in 1956, the album gathers some of Holiday’s signature material, including Strange Fruit, God Bless the Child and Trav'lin' Light, and underscores her gift for making familiar songs feel newly lived-in. By this stage, Holiday’s voice had become rougher and more fragile, but that only deepened the emotional weight of her phrasing. Blending swing-era poise with blues feeling, the record remains one of the clearest statements of her singular ability to turn personal pain into enduring song.
Genre: Jazz
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AllMusic rating:AllMusic users:Artist: Billie HolidayLabel: Not Now Music – NOTLP242Format: LP, Album, ReissueUnits: 1Country: EuropeReleased: 2017Genre: JazzA1 Lady Sings The Blues
A2 Trav'Lin Light
A3 I Must Have That Man
A4 Some Other Spring
A5 Strange Fruit
A6 No Good Man
B1 God Bless The Child
B2 Good Morning Heartache
B3 Love Me Or Leave Me
B4 Too Marvelous For Words
B5 Willow Weep For Me
B6 I Thought About You