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Nina Simone: Nina Simone with Strings

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Label: Colpix Records
Released: 1966
Time:
 27:06
Category: Vocal, Soul, Jazz
Producer(s): See Artists ...
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.ninasimone.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] I Loves You, Porgy - 4:04
[2] Blackbird - 2:04
[3] Falling in Love Again - 2:36
[4] Baubles, Bangles and Beads - 2:05
[5] Spring Is Here - 2:38
[6] That's All - 2:23
[7] Chain Gang (The Work Song) - 2:36
[8] The Man with a Horn - 3:14
[9] Porgy, I Is Your Woman (Bess,You Is My Woman) - 3:21
[10] Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottleof Beer) - 2:05

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Nina Simone - Vocals, Piano

Al Schackman - Guitar
Chris White - Double Bass
Bobby Hamilton - Drums

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Simone had long since departed the Colpix label by the time of the 1966 release of this record. That accounts for its pasted-together contents, which combined some previously unreleased material with tracks with strings. Actually, not all of the selections had strings, which yielded a pretty misleading album title. That technicality isn't really important. This is not the Nina Simone record to start with, but if you like Nina Simone enough to seek out a lot of her albums, there's some worthwhile music here, even if the programming isn't so smooth. The production is uneven, sometimes with the kind of strange echo and sound imbalance that makes the music sound as if it was recorded in a dressing room. Although Simone sings well on every take, the standards are outshone by the earthier tunes, like "Chain Gang (The Work Song)." Certainly the best number is "Blackbird," with its creepy bass and percussive slaps the only accompaniment for Simone's magnificent spiritual vocal, although those apt to be considering buying this in the first place are likely to already have it on Rhino's Anthology: The Colpix Years. The album has been combined with another Colpix LP, Folksy Nina, on a single-disc CD reissue by Collectables.

Richie Unterberger - All Music Guide



Nina Simone with Strings is an album by Nina Simone. The album was released without her knowing after she had left Colpix Records, and had already made albums for Philips Records. To make the tracks on the album (a hodgepodge of live and studio recordings left over from previous recording sessions) more commercial, strings were added on some of the tracks, occasionally burying Simone's vocals under a wall of sound.

Despite (or perhaps: because of) the post-production efforts the album remains one of Simone's least accomplished works, mainly a collection of different songs in terms of subject, style and quality. On later releases of Simone's Colpix years, some of the tracks on this album were remastered (without the strings) and different takes were released attached to the albums that the songs were actually intended for.

"Baubles Bangles and Beads", a song originally intended for the studio album Forbidden Fruit (1961). "Work Song", throughout her career Simone did several versions of this prison-song. The original track listing also falsely named this song, "Chain Gang". "The Man with a Horn", Simone recorded this song later for Nina Simone and Piano (1969), bit it did not make it onto the album. "Porgy I Is Your Woman Now", from George Gershwin's opera Porgy & Bess. "Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)", originally a song by Bessie Smith.

The cover photo was used out of a photo shoot for the earlier album Nina Simone Sings Ellington (1962). See details in the article about that album.

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