Wild is the wind

"Although she largely interpreted other people's songs, some of the strongest lyrical content in her catalogue comes from her own compositions, particularly "Four Women," a spare, trenchant character study that manages to capture all the impossible contradictions of black American womanhood in just 16 lines".

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"This album was apparently a bit of a pastiche of leftovers from sessions for Nina Simone's four previous albums on Philips. But you'd never guess from listening; the material is certainly as strong and consistent as it is on her other mid-'60s LPs".

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