"Here Comes The Sun: Nina Simone On RCA"

[ghost of miles]

Last week's Night Lights show focused on the diverse body of work that Nina Simone recorded for RCA in the late 1960s and early 70s, interpreting songwriters from Hoagy Carmichael to Jimmy Webb, offering civil-rights commentary through songs such as "Backlash Blues" and "I Wish I Knew How It Feels To Be Free," and incorporating folk, pop, rock and soul into her repertoire.  You can listen to it here:

Here Comes The Sun: Nina Simone On RCA

 

[l p]

nina's now in the jazz section at the local record store?

[ghost of miles]

We always filed her under jazz in the two record stores where I worked.

[l p]

that's a mistake.

[danasgoodstuff]

that's a mistake.

Not if that's where your customers are most likely to look for her.

[l p]

this would be a good place to start a thread of people filed in the jazz section who have nothing to do with jazz.

soul/r&b is where she belongs. she ain't no jazz singer.

[JSngry]

she weren't no soul/R&B singer either, if that matters in this hypothetical record store (are there any other kinds these days?).

[l p]

put her in the pop/soul/r&b section by the trash dumpster behind the store. 

[Chuck Nessa]

give the man his meds.

[l p]

instead, give you some taste in music. she can't sing, mostly chooses bad songs to record, and you're a judgemental fool.

[lipi]

Woah, settle down kids. This is like reading YouTube comments.

If you don't care for Nina Simone's music, I humbly suggest this isn't the best thread to be reading or commenting on.