Nina Simone - Nina Simone Sings the Blues

Nina Simone Sings the Blues, primer disco de Nina Simone para RCA, contiene blues y canciones que, en rigor, no son tales, tornando más variada y atractiva la propuesta.

Temas como Do I Move You? (presentada en dos versiones) y My Man's Gone Now tienen una interpretación colosal.

Acompaña a Nina Simone (voz y piano), una agrupación compuesta por dos guitarras (Rudy Stevenson y Eric Gale), órgano (Ernest Hayes), bajo (Bod Bashnell), batería (Bernard Purdie), saxo tenor y harmónica (Buddy Lucas), apartándose de las orquestaciones que adornaban el álbum anterior, último para Philips, High Priestess of Soul.****

1.Do I Move You? 2:45
N. Simone
2.Day And Night 2:34
R. Stevenson
3.In The Dark 2:56
L. Green
4.Real Real 2:20
N. Simone
5.My Man's Gone Now 4:16
D. Heyward-G. Gershwin
6.Backlash Blues 2:29
L. Hughes-N. Simone
7.I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl 2:33
N. Simone
8.Buck 1:51
A. Stroud-D. Bryan
9.Since I Fell For You 2:50
B. Johnson
10.The House Of The Rising Sun 3:51
A. Price
11.Blues For Mama 3:56
A. Lincoln-N. Simone
Bonus Tracks
12.Do I Move You? (Second Version) 2:17
N. Simone
13.Whatever I Am (You Made Me) 3:03

Rudy Stevenson, guitar
Eric Gale, guitar
Bernard Purdie, drums
Bod Bashnell, bass
Ernest Hayes, organ
Buddy Lucas, harmonica
and tenor sax

Tracks 1 & 2 recorded December 19, 1966 at RCA Studio B, New York City.
Tracks 4 & 11 recorded December 22, 1966 at RCA Studio B, New York City.
Tracks 3, 5, 6 to 9 & 12 recorded January 5, 1967 at RCA Studio B, New York City.
Track 13 recorded August 25 and August 26, 1969 at RCA Studio A, New York City.
(Originally released as RCA Single 74-0346).

Tracks 12 & 13 are bonus tracks not included on the original album.

RCA/Legacy 82876 73334 2 RCA/Legacy 89697711592 (2006)