NINA SIMONE Sings The Blues DG 1967 RCA Victor LSP-3789 Stereo VG+/NM in SHRINK

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NINA SIMONE
Sings The Blues
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RCA VICTOR Records LSP-3789
Original 1967 issue • Stereo LP
DEEP GROOVE Labels • 1st PRESSING
3S/3S Indianapolis stampers
Original inner Sleeve included

VINYL is VG+
Extremely clean full gloss vinyl shows a few very light scuffs under hard bright light that are inaudible. LP plays superb EX+ to NM throughout. Labels are immaculate both sides.
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COVER is NM
Still in the complete original factory shrink wrap; crisp, tight and perfectly flat. Spanking clean with no creases, dings, indents, cut-outs or other issues. Edges straight, corners sharp. Seams and spine 100% intact with no wear or splits.

PLEASE NOTE:
Any Grainy or Mottled appearance in PHOTOS is purely due to my low-light photo conditions.
Photos of Labels, (close-up shots) and Vinyl (camera unable to resolve the grooves properly in low light),
are especially affected. Please know that this is from digital photograph limitations effect only.
Labels are actually extremely clean and smooth with perfectly sharp, crisp text print.

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

Nina Simone's hallmark 1st album for RCA (1967)

"perhaps the rawest record Simone ever cut - Nina Simone Sings the Blues is a hallmark recording that endures; it deserves to be called a classic."
~Thom Jurek AllMusic Review

FIRST YEAR ISSUE
MATRIX NUMBERS:
Side One: UPRS-4211--3S
Side Two: UPRS-4212--3S
"I" also stamped in trail-off wax both sides
indicating INDIANAPOLIS plant pressing.

Black Deep Groove labels with silver print and "RCA VICTOR" in white at top above Nipper dog

????? AllMusic Review ~by Thom Jurek
"Nina Simone Sings the Blues, issued in 1967, was her RCA label debut, and was a brave departure from the material she had been recording for Phillips. Indeed, her final album for that label, High Priestess of Soul, featured the singer, pianist, and songwriter fronting a virtual orchestra. Here, Simone is backed by a pair of guitarists (Eric Gale and Rudy Stevenson), bassist (Bob Bushnell), drummer (Bernard "Pretty" Purdie), organist (Ernie Hayes), and harmonica player who doubled on saxophone (Buddy Lucas). Simone handled the piano chores.

The song selection is key here. Because for all intents and purposes this is perhaps the rawest record Simone ever cut. It opens with the sultry, nocturnal, slow-burning original "Do I Move You," which doesn't beg the question but demands an answer: "Do I move you?/Are you willin'?/Do I groove you?/Is it thrillin'?/Do I soothe you?/Tell the truth now?/Do I move you?/Are you loose now?/The answer better be yeah...It pleases me...." As the guitarists slip and slide around her husky vocal, a harmonica wails in the space between, and Simone's piano is the authority, hard and purposely slow. The other tune in that vein, "In the Dark," is equally tense and unnerving...

There are a number of Simone signature tunes on this set, including "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl," "Backlash Blues," and her singular, hallmark, definitive reading of "My Man's Gone Now" from Porgy and Bess. Other notable tracks are the raucous, sexual roadhouse blues of "Buck," written by Simone's then husband Andy Stroud, and the woolly gospel blues of "Real Real," with the Hammond B-3 soaring around her vocal. The cover of Buddy Johnson's "Since I Fell for You" literally drips with ache and want. Simone also reprised her earlier performance of "House of the Rising Sun" (released on a 1962 Colpix live platter called At the Village Gate). It has more authority in this setting... it's fast, loud, proud, and wailing with harmonica and B-3 leading the charge. The set closes with the slow yet sassy "Blues for Mama," ending with the same sexy strut the album began with, giving it the feel of a Möbius strip.

Nina Simone Sings the Blues is a hallmark recording that endures; it deserves to be called a classic."

YES it's that good ...and this 1st year Indianapolis press is amazing to hear!

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