{"product_id":"lady-sings-the-blues-180-gram-vinyl","title":"Lady Sings the Blues [180 Gram Vinyl]","description":"Personnel: Billie Holiday (vocals); Budd Johnson, Paul Quinichette (tenor saxophone); Charlie Shavers (trumpet); Tony Scott (clarinet, piano); Wynton Kelly, Billy Taylor (piano); Billy Bauer, Kenny Burrell (guitar); Aaron Bell, Leonard Gaskin (bass); Cozy Cole, Lennie McBrowne (drums).\u003cbr\u003eProducers: Leroy Lovett, Tony Scott.\u003cbr\u003eCompilation producer: Michael Lang.\u003cbr\u003eRecorded at Fine Sound and William And Maely Dufty's Home, New York, New York between February 1955 and June 1956. Includes liner notes by John Chilton.\u003cbr\u003eDigitally remastered by Suha Gur (Polygram Studios).\u003cbr\u003eContains 20 tracks.\u003cbr\u003eAll tracks have been digitally remastered.\u003cbr\u003eSome Holiday fans embrace the very weariness and faults of her late recordings that others find heartbreaking and disappointing. These sessions from 1955 and 1956 clearly show the results of a life marked by alcohol and drug abuse, horrific love affairs and racism. On such cuts as \"Too Marvelous For Words\" the contrast between the lyrics and Holiday's heavy-heartedness is disconcerting.\u003cbr\u003eBut the juxtaposition works on \"I Must Have That Man,\" where Holiday's interpretations seem to be saying that even good love is tragic. The lynching depicted in \"Strange Fruit\" is certainly made even more powerful and harrowing by Holiday's slow, wrenching delivery. In 1959, Holiday would die with 70 cents in her bank account. LADY SINGS THE BLUES is the soundtrack for those final, troubled years.","brand":"InnerSleeve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41908917239973,"sku":"5060143491849","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/6007\/1077\/files\/444cf936561c5e764cb6b5091f6c7d98_4f8c321e-2e0e-4b4d-8e9f-6ba3cfaabb53.jpg?v=1777576615","url":"https:\/\/www.innersleeve.com\/en-ca\/products\/lady-sings-the-blues-180-gram-vinyl","provider":"InnerSleeve","version":"1.0","type":"link"}