Billie Holiday- Songs For Distingué Lovers LP Format:180g LP Divide and Conquer

Divide and Conquer

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Billie Holiday- Songs For Distingué Lovers LP Format:180g LP Divide and ConquerLabel: Verve Reissued 2023, Originally released 1958 It is undeniable that Billie Holiday's singing changed in her later years. Her voice darkened and shifted to a lower range. Her economy of means distilled her sound to its expressive essence a kind of heightened speech. The classic LP Songs for Distingu Lovers has also deepened and become burnished with time. Maybe it's that still arresting word, "distingu"; maybe it's that iconic, tinted image of