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To Be Free: The... [CD & DVD] [Box]  -  CD

Artist:

Nina Simone

| SKU:  8996438
Release Date:  9/30/2008
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Songs

 

Disc 1

1. Mood Indigo(4:02)
2. I Loves You, Porgy(4:10)
3. My Baby Just Cares for Me(3:38)
4. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out(2:39)
5. You Can Have Him(5:56)
6. Wild Is the Wind(3:34)
7. Trouble in Mind(5:35)
8. When Malindy Sings/Swing Low Sweet Chariot(5:40)
9. See-Line Woman(2:37)
10. Pirate Jenny(6:40)
11. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood(2:45)
12. I Put a Spell on You(2:36)
13. Ne Me Quitte Pas(3:36)
14. Feeling Good(2:55)
15. Four Women(4:25)
16. My Man's Gone Now(4:17)
17. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free(3:09)
18. To Love Somebody(2:40)
19. Sunday in Savannah(3:18)
20. Backlash Blues(3:32)

Disc 2

1. Mississippi Goddam(6:55)
2. In the Morning(2:43)
3. Ain't Got No -- I Got Life(2:58)
4. Do What You Gotta Do(3:01)
5. Seems I'm Never Tired Loving You(3:02)
6. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues(4:50)
7. The Times They Are A-Changin'(5:56)
8. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)(3:41)
9. The Other Woman(6:01)
10. I Think It's Going to Rain Today(4:44)
11. Save Me(3:33)
12. Revolution(6:23)
13. To Be Young, Gifted and Black(2:50)
14. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair(3:25)
15. Westwind(8:48)
16. Who Knows Where the Time Goes(4:59)
17. Suzanne(5:02)

Disc 3

1. No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed(4:51)
2. Just Like a Woman(4:52)
3. Here Comes the Sun(3:34)
4. Tanywey(3:27)
5. Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter(5:17)
6. My Sweet Lord/Today Is a Killer(18:19)
7. Let It Be Me(5:02)
8. Poppies(4:47)
9. Mr. Bojangles(4:52)
10. I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl(5:47)
11. Nina(4:13)
12. Zungo(4:19)
13. Baltimore(4:39)
14. A Single Woman(3:32)

Disc 4

1. Ain't Got No -- I Got Life
2. Pirate Jenny
3. Don't Pay Them No Mind
4. Milestones
5. Go to Hell
6. Backlash Blues
7. Percussion/Drums/Clapping/Dancing
8. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
9. Precious Lord
10. Bonus Material

Details

Format
CD(4)
Release Date
9/30/2008
Original Release Date
1/1/2008
Genre
Box Sets
Label
Legacy
Studio/Live
Studio
Mono/Stereo
Stereo
UPC
886971100921

Release Notes

To Be Free: The... [CD & DVD] [Box]: Release Notes: Muze 
Full title: To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story.Nina Simone.Audio Mixer: Todd Whitelock.Audio Remasterer: Mark Wilder.Liner Note Author: David Nathan.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.

Credits

Performer Simone,Nina , Nina Simone
Producer(s) Richard Seidel (Compilation)

Customer Reviews

Editorial Reviews

To Be Free: The... [CD & DVD] [Box]: MUZE Review
Muze

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."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."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."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."