[cshadows2887]

Something about being awake at hours nobody should just invites listening to Lady Day.

[georgedcc]

Songs for Distingué Lovers is absolutely beautiful. I love Billie, she's absolutely perfect to listen to at night, while its raining outside. One of the most powerful and soulful voices ever. I saw a documentary on her and 3 other female singers of that era, who had tragic lives recently. It was fantastic.

If this song doesn't make you well up, then fuck you.

[cshadows2887]

Man, reading abut the way she performed "Strange Fruit" in her nightclub act makes me want a time machine so badly. Closing the show, all waiters would stop serving when she started the song, and they'd kill all the lights except for a spotlight right on her. And she'd leave the stage after with no encores. I get shivers just thinking about it.

[wall e]

Strange Fruit is such a chilling song. I like this thread.

[deanster321]

While this thread was loading on my phone I was thinking finally, the spambots actually bumped something worth bumping. Haha.