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| Artist: Nina Simone |
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Product Summary
Format: CD
Manufacturer: RCA Records/sbme
Buy.com Sku: 209059982
UPC: 886971100921
UPC 14: 00886971100921
Release Date: 9/30/2008
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
Sample
1. Mood Indigo ~ Nina Simone
2. I Loves You, Porgy ~ Nina Simone
3. My Baby Just Cares For Me ~ Nina Simone
4. Nobody Knows You When You'Re Down and Out ~ Nina Simone
5. You Can Have Him - (live) ~ Nina Simone
6. Wild is the Wind - (live) ~ Nina Simone
7. Trouble In Mind - (live) ~ Nina Simone
8. When Malindy Sings/Swing Low Sweet Chariot - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Nina Simone
9. See-Line Woman - (live) ~ Nina Simone
10. Pirate Jenny - (live) ~ Nina Simone
11. Don'T Let Me Be Misunderstood ~ Nina Simone
12. I Put a Spell On You ~ Nina Simone
13. Ne Me Quitte Pas ~ Nina Simone
14. Feeling Good ~ Nina Simone
15. Four Women ~ Nina Simone
16. My Man'S Gone Now ~ Nina Simone
17. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free ~ Nina Simone
18. To Love Somebody ~ Nina Simone
19. Sunday In Savannah - (live) ~ Nina Simone
20. Backlash Blues - (live) ~ Nina Simone
Disc 2
Song Title
Sample
1. Mississippi Goddam - (live) ~ Nina Simone
2. In the Morning - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Nina Simone
3. Ain'T Got No-I Got Life ~ Nina Simone
4. Do What You Gotta Do ~ Nina Simone
5. Seems I'M Never Tired Loving You ~ Nina Simone
6. Just Like Tom Thumb'S Blues ~ Nina Simone
7. Times They Are a-Changin', The ~ Nina Simone
8. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season) - (live) ~ Nina Simone
9. Other Woman, The (Live) - (live) ~ Nina Simone
10. I Think It'S Going To Rain Today - (live) ~ Nina Simone
11. Save Me - (live) ~ Nina Simone
12. Revolution - (live) ~ Nina Simone
13. To Be Young, Gifted and Black - (live) ~ Nina Simone
14. Black is the Color of My True Love'S Hair - (live) ~ Nina Simone
15. Westwind - (live) ~ Nina Simone
16. Who Knows Where the Time Goes - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Nina Simone
17. Suzanne - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Nina Simone
Disc 3
Song Title
Sample
1. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed ~ Nina Simone
2. Just Like a Woman - (previously unreleased) ~ Nina Simone
3. Here Comes the Sun - (live) ~ Nina Simone
4. Tanywey - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Nina Simone
5. Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Nina Simone
6. My Sweet Lord/Today is a Killer - (live) ~ Nina Simone
7. Let It Be Me - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Nina Simone
8. Poppies - (live) ~ Nina Simone
9. Mr. Bojangles - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Nina Simone
10. I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Nina Simone
11. Nina - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Nina Simone
12. Zungo - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Nina Simone
13. Baltimore ~ Nina Simone
14. Single Woman, A ~ Nina Simone
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
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Personnel: Nina Simone (vocals, piano). |
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Audio Mixer: Todd Whitelock. |
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Audio Remasterer: Mark Wilder. |
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Liner Note Author: David Nathan. |
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Jazz singer and pianist Nina Simone was such a prodigious talent that even a four-disc box set might seem too small a canvas to fully sketch her genius, but TO BE FREE: THE NINA SIMONE STORY is nonetheless an ideal introduction. The three CDs contain 51 tracks covering Simone's career from 1953 to 1993, from her beginnings as a classically trained supper club artiste through her period of political awakening into her later, idiosyncratic blend of jazz, blues, pop, and rock. The fourth disc is a DVD containing a documentary film with live concert footage that was completed in 1970 but never released until this set. The set also contains eight previously unreleased songs and a book with essays and track-by-track commentary. |
Producer: Richard Seidel (Compilation) |
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Compilation Appearances
Associated Artists and Works
Technical Info
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Release Date : 09/30/2008 |
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Original Release Date : 2008 |
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Catalog ID : 88697110092 |
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Label : Legacy |
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Number of Discs : 4 |
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Studio/Live : Studio |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00886971100921 |
Professional Reviews
Mojo (Publisher)
(p.122)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Over the course of 3CDs, we bear witness to a singer who had no equal. Simone carved phrases with that smoky tenor, a natural instrument so regal that her whisper packed more power than the caterwauling of lessers who compensate with overkill."
(p.122)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Over the course of 3CDs, we bear witness to a singer who had no equal. Simone carved phrases with that smoky tenor, a natural instrument so regal that her whisper packed more power than the caterwauling of lessers who compensate with overkill."
Blender (Magazine)
(p.81)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "She squeezed audiences with a mysterious intensity, and this three-disc set is rightly heavy on the live tracks."
(p.81)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "She squeezed audiences with a mysterious intensity, and this three-disc set is rightly heavy on the live tracks."
Paste (magazine)
(p.66)
- "TO BE FREE: THE NINA SIMONE STORY stirringly captures Simone's journey from a reluctant cabaret performer to one of the most powerful voices of the Civil Rights era."
(p.66)
- "TO BE FREE: THE NINA SIMONE STORY stirringly captures Simone's journey from a reluctant cabaret performer to one of the most powerful voices of the Civil Rights era."
Uncut (magazine)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "The songs Simone wrote or covered in response to the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s suited her throaty snarl perfectly."
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "The songs Simone wrote or covered in response to the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s suited her throaty snarl perfectly."
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