The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam And I mean every word of it Alabama's got me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam Alabama's got me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam Can't you see it can't you feel it It's all in the air I can't stand the pressure much longer Somebody say a prayer...
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Live @ the Village Gate, 1961Nina Simone - vocals, pianoAl Shackman - guitarChris White - bassRob Hamilton - drums
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A whole lot of Nina Simone live material is about to be unveiled for the first time ever. The Protest Anthology features rare, previously unreleased live performances and interviews with the Empress in her heyday. The collection revolves around her most politically outspoken songs, including 11 "unheard" live tracks and 8 "unseen" video interviews. Starting Tuesday, Amazon will have high-qua...
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[Nina Simone - Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter / 5:18]If you are crazy enough to peruse his words and lend your ears to the scrivener, you have surely noticed I have a tender fondness for this lady. No, not Chloé above but this one.Her voice has ensnared me for quite a while. And now, she flings her funky net to capture all of your mosquitoes buzzing around her like in a tropical mist.The fun..
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Here she is, going back to her jazz roots, in 1962, covering one of Duke Ellington's best loved tunes. This is perhaps more cheerfully uptempo than the general perception of serious, committed Nina, but is none the worse for it.
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For all her talent as a writer and pianist, it is arguably as an interpreter of other people's songs that Nina Simone was best known; her biggest hits in the UK came courtesy of the brothers Gibb ("To Love Somebody") and the stage musical "Hair" ("Ain't Got No - I Got Life").Here, though, she is in a jazz mode, covering Nat Adderley's "Work Song" as a vocal piece, back in 1961.
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http://treblezine.com/reviews/2889-Nina_Simone_To_Be_Free.htmlNina SimoneTo Be FreeLegacy2008In the original era of 1960s political correctness when entertainers toned down their personal rhetoric to continue their careers as performing artists, Nina Simone could never be silenced. She was the voice of freedom. The original chanteuse channeled passionate reasoning and emotional fire to sing abo...
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By a maudlin moonIllustration taken from "Viaje a la luna" ("Journey to the Moon") by Federico Garcia Lorca & Emilio AmeroI have thought those dreams a thousand times And I have dreamt those hopes a thousand moreNever once will you feelThe sound of those reveriesThough they are an echo of your absenceLike the sun in the mirror of the morning mistThey reflect from the unison of your silence[...]...
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You can't help getting cought up in this tour de force performance. Intimate and powerful. Beautiful and so powerful you almost feel afraid to let go. Swept up in abandon to the irrisistable power of love. "Don't you know you're life itself? Like a leaf clings to a tree, oh my love cling to me. For we are creatures of the wind, and wild is the wind! You touch me and I hear the sound of m...
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I was getting ready to do another post on the outstanding singer/pianist Nina Simone when I learned that her recording of this song is the original. Reased in 1964, a year before the Animals' monster hit. It was apparently written by Horace Ott, with Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus. Ott's inspiration was his future wife, Gloria Caldwell, whose name is on the credits instread of Ott's because ...
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"Try to hear folks chatterAnd I know you cheatRight or wrong, don't matterWhen you're with me, sweet"Edit:FYI, the above is Nina's arrangement of the original penned and sung by Billie Holiday. The tune can be heard in the comments.
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Life comes down to little moments, momentary crossroads of choicesplaced in front of us call it faith, chance, happenstance serendipity, whatever it is, we have to ask does it happen for a reason? Who knows but it happens and what matters most is what you do within these life altering moments.Do you let them pass you by like the breeze of a passing thought on another chaotic day? Or do you stop...
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Today was a crap day. I just got this flu bug that's going around. They shut off the water, again, in my building while I was getting sick. Even though I was ill I made mi novia breakfast before she went to work, I was off today.When she came home I had dinner ready with fresh cut fruit salad. She had a long day at work and I wanted to have food for her when she walked in the door.My baby arriv...
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My new favorite Nina Simone song, this incredible live version of I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl recorded live July 28, 1973 at the Royal Philharmonic Hall in NYC. You can feel the tender interplay between artist and audience. I love the way her guitarist bluesy riffs plays off her sedutive piano keys.Sit back, press play and prepare to be amazed.
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