Let It All Out Nina Simone Artist

{|Let It All Out|} is one of {|Nina Simone|}'s more adult pop-oriented mid-'60s albums, with renditions of tunes by {|Duke Ellington|} ({|Mood Indigo|}), {|Billie Holiday|} ({|Don't Explain|}), {|Irving Berlin|} ({|This Year's Kisses|}), and {|Rodger... Read more

{|Let It All Out|} is one of {|Nina Simone|}'s more adult pop-oriented mid-'60s albums, with renditions of tunes by {|Duke Ellington|} ({|Mood Indigo|}), {|Billie Holiday|} ({|Don't Explain|}), {|Irving Berlin|} ({|This Year's Kisses|}), and {|Rodgers & Hart|} ({|Little Girl Blue|}). As ever, {|Simone|} ranges wide in her selection: {|Bob Dylan|}'s {|The Ballad of Hollis Brown,|} a swaggering adaptation of {|Chauffeur Blues|} (credited to her husband of the time, {|Andy Stroud|}), the gospel hymn Nearer Blessed Lord, and {|Van McCoy|}'s {|For Myself.|} {|Images|} is an a cappella adaptation of a poem about the beauty of blackness by {|Waring Cuney|}. All of {|Simone|}'s {|Philips|} albums are solid, and this is no exception, although it isn't the best of them. ~ Richie Unterberger Less