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Volume Four of Verve's complete Billy Holiday Story, this disc includes recordings from two sessions, some of which were issued on the album STAY WITH ME and others from the original release of the LADY SINGS THE BLUES. Lady Day's voice, by 1956, was beginning to thicken and transform, but her stylings and embellishments are still superb, and the delicious timbre of her voice is still the quintessense of blues. Fromher treatment of Irving Berlin ("Say It Isn't So", and "Always"), to her own fine compositions, like the title track and "God Bless the Child", Holiday spins her spell, giving these familiar songs a new dimension, imbuing the lyrics with tenderness, pain and emotional intensity.
Moods alternatesfrom song to song: the cool swing of "Trav'lin Light" givesway to the wry musings of "I Must Have That Man", contrasting with the dark landscape of "Strange Fruit", a deeply disturbing song about black lynchings in the South. Holiday's tone--which falls somewhere at the intersection of chilly and cozy--and the loungy, laid-back swing of her combo, make LADY SINGS THE BLUES a perfect record for a rainy day spent indoors.
Moods alternatesfrom song to song: the cool swing of "Trav'lin Light" givesway to the wry musings of "I Must Have That Man", contrasting with the dark landscape of "Strange Fruit", a deeply disturbing song about black lynchings in the South. Holiday's tone--which falls somewhere at the intersection of chilly and cozy--and the loungy, laid-back swing of her combo, make LADY SINGS THE BLUES a perfect record for a rainy day spent indoors.
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