bossymarmalade reblogged
[Image: Four illustration of Black music legends: Nina Simone, Notorious B.I.G., Stevie Wonder, and Gil Scott Heron.]
1ruleofthirds:
Nina Simone, Notorious B.I.G., Stevie Wonder & Gil Scott Heron
Anything with Nina Simone gets an auto-reblog. I am really quite ashamed of the fact that she isn’t considered more of a national treasure and visionary artist.
Seriously though, listen to such works as Sinnerman or Mississippi Goddamn or her version of Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood. Pirate Jenny is it’s own one woman opera and gorgeous besides.
By the by, I consider her version of House of the Rising Sun to be the one and only acceptable form of that song.
I first heard Nina Simone's "Sinnerman" in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street (one of THE PIONEERING shows when it came to using songs to underscore the drama) and it gave me chills. Every now and again I'm gripped with the need to listen to it again, and again and again, all along dem day.
Source: stanleychow.bigcartel.com