Dislocation
24 jul 18
DeRank ™: 18,29
WEEK OF STRANGE FRUIT
Billie Holiday - I'm A Fool To Want You
Perhaps, with "Strange Fruit", the interpretative peak of Lady Day, a song without "crescendo", only dense with a despair without resolution, a certainty of the futility of an impossible feeling, written by Frank Sinatra (with Joel Herron and Jack Wolfe), likely in the aftermath of his failed relationship with Ava Gardner from which he struggled to emerge.
Holiday made it her own and understood it in that record monument which is "Lady In Satin".....
Billie Holiday - I'm A Fool To Want You
Perhaps, with "Strange Fruit", the interpretative peak of Lady Day, a song without "crescendo", only dense with a despair without resolution, a certainty of the futility of an impossible feeling, written by Frank Sinatra (with Joel Herron and Jack Wolfe), likely in the aftermath of his failed relationship with Ava Gardner from which he struggled to emerge.
Holiday made it her own and understood it in that record monument which is "Lady In Satin".....
DeBaser says
right now