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Billie Holiday: Rare Live Recordings (1934-1959)

Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, April 2008

THAT WEARY, woeful voice and that life-is-hard delivery – these are the things that make Billie Holiday compelling and contemporary, despite the fact that next year marks the 50th anniversary of her death.

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