Nina Simone Pastel Blues (180 Gram Vinyl) [Import] K-Pop Cola Falls 2

Cola Falls 2

Pickpocket finds the songwriter calling upon her musical friends

yearning feeling but never boils over

while "Sad Statue" sports a guitar riff that sounds like a Greek bouzouki

Nina Simone Pastel Blues (180 Gram Vinyl) [Import] K-Pop Cola Falls 2If 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