A Single Woman (album)

A Single Woman is the final studio album by the singer Nina Simone, released in 1993 via Elektra Records.^[9][10]

A Single Woman
Studio album by Nina Simone
Released	March 1993
Recorded	August–December 1992
Venue	Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Studio	Oceanway Studios, Mad Hatter Studio
Genre	Vocal, soul, jazz, pop
Length	39:06
Label	Elektra
Producer	André Fischer[1]
Nina Simone chronology
Live at Ronnie Scott's (1987) A Single Woman (1993) The Soul of Nina Simone (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
Music Week	[5]
New York Daily News	[6]
The Observer	[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]

Critical reception

The Times wrote: "Despite the strings, the woodwinds, the French accordions or the 'My Way' overtones of many of these songs, [Simone] speaks with bleak honesty and unashamed recalcitrance to many people who value such qualities above sham professionalism or artifice."^[11]

Reviewing a reissue, Clash wrote that Simone's "voice is richer and deeper; her phrasing resembles more than ever the tender voicing of a jazz trumpet."^[12]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Single Woman"	Rod McKuen	3:33
2.	"Lonesome Cities"	Rod McKuen	3:08
3.	"If I Should Lose You"	Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin	3:59
4.	"The Folks Who Live on the Hill"	Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern	3:39
5.	"Love's Been Good to Me"	Rod McKuen	3:57
6.	"Papa, Can You Hear Me?"	Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand	4:22
7.	"Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux"	Louis Aragon, Georges Brassens	6:26
8.	"Just Say I Love Him"	Jimmy Dale, Martin Kalmanoff, Jack Val, Sam Ward	4:29
9.	"The More I See You"	Mack Gordon, Harry Warren	2:42
10.	"Marry Me"	Nina Simone	2:51

Expanded version (2008)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"The Long and Winding Road"	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	3:32
12.	"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"	Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young	2:30
13.	"Baseball Boogie"	Nina Simone	0:55
14.	"No Woman, No Cry"	Bob Marley	3:13
15.	"Do I Move You"	Nina Simone	3:16
16.	"The Times They Are a-Changin'"	Bob Dylan	0:56
17.	"Sign o' the Times"	Prince	5:37

Personnel

• Nina Simone – vocals, piano
• John Chiodini, Al Schackman – guitar
• John Clayton, Buell Neidlinger, Christopher Hanulik, David Young, Jim Hughart, John Peña, Margaret Storer, Steve Edelman, Susan Ranney – bass
• Mike Melvoin – piano
• Jeff Hamilton, Paul Robinson, Andre Fischer – drums
• Bill Summers, Larry Bunker, Darryl Munyungo Jackson – percussion
• Gerald Albright – tenor saxophone
• Jack Sheldon – trumpet
• Frank Marocco – accordion
• Ann Stockton, Carol Robbins – harp
• Assa Drori, Connie Kupka, Gina Kronstadt, Gordon Marron, Henry Ferber, Irving Geller, Isabelle Daskoff, Israel Baker, Jay Rosen, Joel Derouin, Kathleen Lenski, Mari Tsumura, Mark Cargill, Shari Zippert, Yvette Devereaux – violin
• Evan Wilson, Herschel Wise, Margot MacLaine, Marilyn Baker, Rollice Dale – viola
• David Speltz, Frederick Seykora, Igor Horoshevsky, Marie Fera, Melissa Hasin, Suzie Katayama – cello
• Bob Tricarico, Earl Dumler, Gary Foster, Jack Nimitz, Jeff Clayton, Jon Kip, Valerie King – woodwind, reeds
• Brad Warnaar, Jeff DeRosa, Marilyn Johnson, Richard Todd – French horn
• Gerald Vinci – concertmaster, violin
• Jeremy Lubbock, John Clayton, Richard Evans, Nina Simone, Andre Fischer – arrangements

Technical

• Andre Fischer – Producer
• Al Schmitt – mixing, recording
• Michael Alago – executive producer
• Carol Friedman – photography

Charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
US Jazz Albums	19[13]