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Nina Simone: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 14 March 1968

ONE OF Nina Simone's songs contains the line "He'll find her waiting like a lonesome queen." Though she is accompanied by a quartet and though her current stint at the Troubadour is drawing crowds, the last two words of that line are an apt description of the singer. Lonesome queen.

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