UPC: 886977867026
Format: CD (2 disc)
Release Date: Mar 15, 2011
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Liner Note Author: David Nathan .
Nina Simone could sing anything and make it work, and her unique mixture of passion, empowerment, liberation, and love continues to make her recorded work speak powerfully a decade or more into the 21st century. This two-disc, 29-track set collects essential sides from her entire career, including tracks done for the Colpix, Philips, RCA, CTI, and Elektra labels between 1959 and 1993. Simone was a master of nuance and phrasing, and songs collected here like 1959's "I Loves You, Porgy" and "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair," 1960's "Trouble in Mind," 1964's "See-Line Woman," her version of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" from 1965, 1967's saucy "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl," and the late-career "A Single Woman" from 1993 all give testament to this gifted and unique artist's vision, style, and elegance. It's a very impressive legacy. ~ Steve Leggett
Nina Simone could sing anything and make it work, and her unique mixture of passion, empowerment, liberation, and love continues to make her recorded work speak powerfully a decade or more into the 21st century. This two-disc, 29-track set collects essential sides from her entire career, including tracks done for the Colpix, Philips, RCA, CTI, and Elektra labels between 1959 and 1993. Simone was a master of nuance and phrasing, and songs collected here like 1959's "I Loves You, Porgy" and "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair," 1960's "Trouble in Mind," 1964's "See-Line Woman," her version of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" from 1965, 1967's saucy "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl," and the late-career "A Single Woman" from 1993 all give testament to this gifted and unique artist's vision, style, and elegance. It's a very impressive legacy. ~ Steve Leggett
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Other Woman
2 - Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
3 - Nobody Knows You When You're Done and Out
4 - Trouble in Mind
5 - Mississippi Goddam
6 - See-Line Woman
7 - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
8 - I Put a Spell on You
9 - Ne Me Quitte Pas
10 - Strange Fruit
11 - Four Women
12 - Sinnerman
13 - Do I Move You?
Disc 2:
1 - I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
2 - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
3 - Glory of Love
4 - To Love Somebody
5 - Do What You Gotta Do
6 - Ain't Got No -- I Got Life
7 - Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)
8 - Everyone's Gone to the Moon
9 - Revolution
10 - To Be Young, Gifted and Black
11 - Who Knows Where the Time Goes
12 - Here Comes the Sun
13 - Just Like a Woman
14 - Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
15 - Rich Girl
16 - Single Woman
1 - Other Woman
2 - Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
3 - Nobody Knows You When You're Done and Out
4 - Trouble in Mind
5 - Mississippi Goddam
6 - See-Line Woman
7 - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
8 - I Put a Spell on You
9 - Ne Me Quitte Pas
10 - Strange Fruit
11 - Four Women
12 - Sinnerman
13 - Do I Move You?
Disc 2:
1 - I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
2 - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
3 - Glory of Love
4 - To Love Somebody
5 - Do What You Gotta Do
6 - Ain't Got No -- I Got Life
7 - Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)
8 - Everyone's Gone to the Moon
9 - Revolution
10 - To Be Young, Gifted and Black
11 - Who Knows Where the Time Goes
12 - Here Comes the Sun
13 - Just Like a Woman
14 - Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
15 - Rich Girl
16 - Single Woman