Billie: The Original Soundtrack Recording

 
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Billie Holiday
Billie: The Original Soundtrack Recording

[ Concord / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 14 August 2020

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Companion Soundtrack to the James Erskine-directed documentary on the breathtaking talent of Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday featured with her band, The Sonhouse All Stars, performing her classic works including "I Only Have Eyes For You", "God Bless The Child", "Strange Fruit" and more.

"Holiday had one of the greatest voices of all time. She was a woman of breathtaking talent and global popularity while also stirring controversy. She started a notable rebellion singing "Strange Fruit" which exposed the realities of Black life in America and earned her powerful enemies. Raw, emotional and brutally honest, "Billie" is filled with incredible, unheard testimonies from musical greats like Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sylvia Syms and Count Basie. These intimate testimonies are not only told by some of the musical greats that knew Holiday best, but Holiday herself is revealed through the eyes of her cousin, her school friends, lovers, lawyers, pimps and even the FBI agents who arrested her." TheUrbanMusicScene

Tracks:

Now or Never (3:16)
God Bless the Child (3:09)
Hoppin' Around (2:38)
Blues are Brewin' (3:02)
Funeral in New Orleans (2:12)
Fine and Mellow (3:20)
Strange Fruit (3:15)
Just One More Chance (3:47)
My Man (2:56)
I Only Have Eyes for you (2:58)
I'll Never Smile Again (3:27)
Don't Explain (2:28)
I Loves You, Porgy (2:56)