Nina simone which album is best

Nina Simone Sings the Blues. I Put a Spell on You. Little Girl Blue. To Love Somebody. Wild Is the Wind. Here Comes the Sun. The Amazing Nina Simone. Forbidden Fruit. Broadway Blues Ballads. High Priestess of Soul. Folksy Nina. Nina Simone and Her Friends. Nina Simone and Piano. Nina Simone At Carnegie Hall. That said, the exposure — the song featured in a perfume commercial — brought Simone to a new audience and allowed her to work only when she needed to until her death in She recorded only one more studio album, A Single Woman, in Mississippi Goddam is a frustrated call to arms, a plea for mercy, a recalcitrant cry of defiance and an angry voice of reason crying out against the most untenable and unjust of situations.

Mississippi Goddam was controversial, not least because of the cursing in its title. The origin of Sinnerman or Sinner Man before Simone dispensed with the spacing is ambiguous, some claiming the traditional African-American spiritual started life as a Scottish folk song. I found out I could do more destroying a song and screaming it to death. I Put a Spell on You glides effortlessly in through your ear, and before you know it, it has you right where it wants you.

Simone and Brooklyn-based producer Hal Mooney set about stripping away the tinkly intro to leave just her naked voice, building up tremendous tension before releasing it with a fusillade of bombastic brass. The rest of the track, with its staccato piano as counterpoint, is equally irresistible. Few artists had the audacity to cover her own composition Four Women though, such is its inimitability. Set over a stark, mid-paced groove, she presents to us four strong women of colour: Aunt Sarah, Safronia, Sweet Thing and Peaches, each describing themselves in the first person and conveying their personal suffering.

She released close to 50 studio and live albums during her proper career, and the amount of compilations and unofficial albums from shady labels brings that number closer to You get a glimpse of the different direction Nina could have taken her music if she resolved to stay famous as just a jazz pianist; this is the smoothest, most cocktail hour ready album in her discography.

In early , Nina signed with Philips Records, who released this album as her first for them. For document of Nina being a powerhouse live, look no further. Your collection is incomplete without this album.