Billie Holiday sings the very moving and horrific song, Strange Fruit.
Apparently,the images conjured by the song are so horrific that Billie Holiday often performed it with her eyes closed. This piece in the Guardian traces the song's dark history.
Needed to hear this song a few times after hearing Strange Fruit -- The Blues are Brewing, also sung by Billie Holiday, with Louis Armstrong on trumpet.
When the moon's kinda dreamy
Starry eyed and dreamy
And nights are luscious and long
If you're kinda lonely
Then nothin' but the blues are brewin'
The blues are brewin'
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