 The 13 tracks included on this album featured her own songs "I Love My Man", "Don't Explain" and "Fine and Mellow", together with other songs closely associated with her, including "Body and Soul", "My Man", and "Lady Sings the Blues" (her lyrics accompanied a tune by pianist Herbie Nichols).The liner notes for this album were written partly by Gilbert Millstein of the "New York Times", who, according to these notes, served as narrator of the Carnegie Hall concerts.Interspersed among Holiday's songs, Millstein read aloud four lengthy passages from her autobiography, "Lady Sings the Blues".