Chrissie Hynde Instagram – Few compositions are as genuinely melancholy as ‘You Don’t What Love Is’. Don Raye’s piercing lyrics accentuate the heartbreaking feeling staged by De Paul. You don’t know what love is, he claims, until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues. As one critic puts it, “the lyrics draw out the exquisite pain!” . The song was never a major hit, but was recorded occasionally in the ‘40s, and then brought into the jazz canon in the 1950’s when it was recorded by John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Freddie Hubbard and more.. . Listen to Chrissies cover of ‘You Don’t Know What Love Is’ on streaming services now! . ‘Valve Bone Woe’ out September 6th