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This \u003cstrong\u003eAcoustic Sounds Series reissue\u003c\/strong\u003e is pressed on \u003cstrong\u003e180g audiophile-grade vinyl\u003c\/strong\u003e, housed in a \u003cstrong\u003edeluxe gatefold tip-on jacket\u003c\/strong\u003e printed by \u003cstrong\u003eStoughton\u003c\/strong\u003e, and mastered by \u003cstrong\u003eRyan K. Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e at \u003cstrong\u003eSterling Sound\u003c\/strong\u003e from the \u003cstrong\u003eoriginal analogue tapes\u003c\/strong\u003e. The pressing was handled by \u003cstrong\u003eQuality Record Pressings\u003c\/strong\u003e, ensuring exceptional clarity, warmth, and quiet surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally compiled from leftover recordings spanning 1964–1965, the album includes Simone’s definitive renditions of \u003cstrong\u003e“Lilac Wine,” “Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair,”\u003c\/strong\u003e and the title track \u003cstrong\u003e“Wild Is The Wind,”\u003c\/strong\u003e later famously covered by David Bowie. It also features the powerful and controversial \u003cstrong\u003e“Four Women,”\u003c\/strong\u003e which was banned by New York jazz radio station WLIB for its unflinching portrayal of Black female archetypes. With sparse arrangements and Simone’s commanding vocals, the album remains one of her most revered works — ranked \u003cstrong\u003e#212 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSide A\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA1. I Love Your Lovin' Ways\u003cbr\u003eA2. Four Women\u003cbr\u003eA3. What More Can I Say\u003cbr\u003eA4. Lilac Wine\u003cbr\u003eA5. That's All I Ask\u003cbr\u003eA6. Break Down And Let It All Out\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSide B\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eB1. Why Keep On Breakin' My Heart\u003cbr\u003eB2. Wild Is The Wind\u003cbr\u003eB3. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair\u003cbr\u003eB4. If I Should Lose You\u003cbr\u003eB5. 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It captures Simone at the absolute peak of her artistic and political powers — a performer whose command of the stage, the piano and her audience was unlike anyone else in popular music. The performance draws on folk tradition, Broadway, original composition and Simone's own extraordinary capacity to transform any song into something deeply personal and politically resonant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album opens with \u003cstrong\u003e\"Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair\"\u003c\/strong\u003e — a Scottish folk ballad she had long made her own — and moves through a programme that includes the Hair medley \u003cstrong\u003e\"Ain't Got No \/ I Got Life\"\u003c\/strong\u003e, Miriam Makeba's \u003cstrong\u003e\"West Wind\"\u003c\/strong\u003e and a spellbinding reading of Sandy Denny's \u003cstrong\u003e\"Who Knows Where the Time Goes?\"\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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Every song that night was performed in his memory, and the result is one of the most emotionally charged and historically significant recordings of Simone's entire career. The weight of the moment is audible throughout — in the force of her piano, in the barely contained grief in her voice, and in her words to the audience between songs. It is a document of an artist and a community in pain, transformed into something transcendent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe programme draws together blues standards, gospel and original material. \u003cstrong\u003e\"Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)\"\u003c\/strong\u003e — written for the occasion by Simone's bass player \u003cstrong\u003eGene Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e and performed in its entirety for the first time that night — is the centrepiece: a long, slow, devastating piece that moves from quiet sorrow to barely controlled rage. 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Recorded in New York, it is a masterclass in stripped-back blues — austere, intimate and utterly commanding. Only someone with Simone's depth of musicianship and emotional authority could make material this spare feel so overwhelming. The album draws directly from the blues and gospel traditions that shaped her earliest musical education, transformed entirely by the force of her personality and the precision of her arrangements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe opening \u003cstrong\u003e\"Be My Husband\"\u003c\/strong\u003e — performed almost a cappella with only handclaps and Simone's own vocals — is one of the most arresting moments in her entire discography, later covered by both Jeff Buckley and Antony Hegarty. \u003cstrong\u003e\"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out\"\u003c\/strong\u003e, a standard associated with Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, receives a definitive reading, while \u003cstrong\u003e\"Strange Fruit\"\u003c\/strong\u003e — the Billie Holiday signature about the lynching of Black Americans — is handled with shattering restraint. 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It finds Simone moving further into soul and R\u0026amp;B territory, drawing on a broad programme of material that ranges from civil rights anthems to Broadway covers and original compositions. The arrangements don't always sit perfectly with her piano-led approach, but the strength of the material and the authority of Simone's voice carry everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album's defining track is \u003cstrong\u003e\"I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free\"\u003c\/strong\u003e — written by jazz pianist Billy Taylor — which Simone transforms into a soaring, impassioned civil rights statement that became one of the anthems of the era. \u003cstrong\u003e\"It Be's That Way Sometimes\"\u003c\/strong\u003e, written by her brother \u003cstrong\u003eSam Waymon\u003c\/strong\u003e, is an equally powerful highlight. 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