After an uncharacteristic (for her) four-year hiatus from recording, Nina S… Read Full Bio ↴After an uncharacteristic (for her) four-year hiatus from recording, Nina Simone returned to the fringes of the pop world with Baltimore, the only album she recorded for the CTI label. While it bears some of the musical stylings of the period -- light reggae inflections that hint of Steely Dan's "Haitian Divorce" -- the vocals are unmistakably Simone's. Like many of her albums, the content is wildly uneven; Simone simply covers too much ground and there's too little attention paid to how songs flow together. As a result, a robust torch piano ballad like "Music for Lovers" is followed immediately by one of Simone's more awkward moments, an attempt to keep up with a jaunty rhythm track on a cover of Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl." Still, one must give her credit for always being provocative in her cover song choices, as she clearly scores on the Randy Newman-penned title track and a dramatic reading of Judy Collins' "My Father." Her voice throughout is in fine form, even when she phones it in on the album-closing traditional gospel tunes, but arranger David Matthews is a mismatch for her: He blows the arrangements with excessive string overlays and needlessly blaring background vocals. Simone herself all but disavowed the album shortly after its release, testament to her eternally contrarian, iconic nature. Despite her misgivings, though, Baltimore is an occasionally spellbinding if erratic album, a challenging and worthwhile listen for people ready to dip into the lesser-known entries in Nina Simone's vast catalog.
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Baltimore
Nina Simone Lyrics
Balm In Gilead There is a balm in Gilead To make the wounded whole There…
Baltimore Beat up little seagull On a marble stair Tryin' to find the…
Everything Must Change everything must change nothing stays the same everyone will …
Forget Forget the love not chosen Forget the pain unspoken And pl…
If You Pray Right If you love right, heaven belongs to you If you love…
Music For Lovers There is music for lovers It to be found In the sound Of…
My Father My father always promised me That we would live in France We…
Rich Girl There's a rich girl You know you've gone too far And you…
That's All I Want From You A little love that slowly grows and grows Not one that…
The Family The weevils all took to cotton and cows all took…
Harry strings
on Blackbird
This is one of the inspired song have ever heard, it's touches my soul..
Daniel
on Feeling Good
Just unbelievable, I dig it. Great music & artists.
Nikolaos Souroufis
on Sinnerman
amazing !!!!!!!!