Simone, Nina - Pastel Blues Live in Cook County Jail

Simone, Nina - Pastel Blues Live in Cook County JailVinyl LP pressing. Pastel Blues features "Be My Husband" and was written by Andrew Stroud, Simone's husband and manager at the time. She sings it a cappella with her handclapping and a hi hat as her only accompaniment. The song was later retitled as "Be Your Husband" and covered by Jeff Buckley on Live at Sin (2003). The album also features covers of Billie Holiday songs, "Tell Me More and More and Then Some" and "Strange Fruit." Nina Simone was an

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1 Days Are Gone

6 Already Free

The first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown

2 Vanishing

a gate only passable in the mind

7 The Stars Keep on Calling My Name

the viscera of being in love for the first time

Singles #5-7 are pulled from The Strokes’ second studio album Room On Fire

belt-drive operation with two speeds: 33-1/3 and 45 RPM

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Together for a relatively short period of time