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Folksy Nina (1964)

Where the lyrics of Folksy Nina take you, and where it was really made.

The album is a live record of one concert, yet the sources give two different dates for it: 12 April 1963 in one and 12 May 1963 in another.

Key places

Live recording at Carnegie Hall (1964)

Recording site Carnegie Hall — The live tracks on this album were recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York. The English Wikipedia article gives 12 April 1963, while Discogs gives 12 May 1963 for the same concert. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Folksy Nina: live album by singer, pianist and songwriter Nina Simone
• Includes live tracks recorded on 12 April 1963 at Carnegie Hall, New York (per the English Wikipedia article)
• Released on Colpix Records; the Italian Wikipedia article gives 1964 as the release year
• Eight tracks: side A 21:45 (4 tracks), side B 18:36 (4 tracks)
• Side A: Silver City Bound, When I Was a Young Girl, Erets Zavat Chalav, Lass of the Low Country
• Side B: The Young Knight, Twelfth of Never, Vanetihu, You Can Sing a Rainbow/Hush Little Baby
• Personnel: Nina Simone on vocals and piano; Al Schackman and Phil Orlando on guitar; Lisle Atkinson on double bass; Montego Joe on drums

Background

• Italian Wikipedia says the album carries live tracks from the same concert as the previous album, Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall (1963)
• Discogs describes the release as recorded live in concert

Recording

• Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, a single venue
• Sources disagree on the date: 12 April 1963 in the English Wikipedia article, 12 May 1963 on Discogs
• In 2005 the complete 1963 Carnegie Hall concert was released, separately from this album

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · it.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on February 21, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina; the sixth of eight children.
• Began playing piano at age three or four and gave a classical debut recital at age 12.
• Failed to gain admission to the Curtis Institute of Music, which she attributed to racism.
• Played piano at a nightclub in Atlantic City and adopted the stage name "Nina Simone" in 1954, after which she began singing as well.

Career

• Debut album Little Girl Blue (1958) included "I Loves You, Porgy", her only Billboard top 20 single in the US.
• Recorded more than 40 albums up to 1974; her 1960s protest songs such as "Mississippi Goddam" tied her to the civil rights movement.
• Left the US in 1970 and settled in Europe, later living in Liberia, Barbados, the Netherlands, and France.
• Autobiography I Put a Spell on You was published in 1991; she continued performing until her death on April 21, 2003.
• Known as the "High Priestess of Soul"; Rolling Stone ranked her No. 21 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.

Members

• Solo artist; she was accompanied by percussionist Leopoldo Fleming and guitarist Al Schackman throughout most of her career.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• The source gives no contemporary critic rating for the album
• Released on Colpix Records
• Italian Wikipedia gives 1964 as the release year

Reappraisal

• Discogs lists the release with the note that it was recorded live in concert
• Discogs credits the recording venue as Carnegie Hall
• The complete 1963 Carnegie Hall concert was issued in 2005, which places this album beside a fuller document of the same night

Records

• Eight tracks in total, with side A at 21:45 and side B at 18:36
• The 2005 release of the complete concert is the only later issue named in the source
• The album was issued on a single label, Colpix Records

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · it.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The Julie Driscoll cover: When I Was a Young Girl was later recorded by Julie Driscoll as When I was Young on her 1969 album Streetnoise, under the assumption it was a traditional tune
• Track 8 is sometimes listed under the title Mighty Lak' a Rose, a song by Ethelbert Nevin with lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton
• The original back cover prints the title of side B's first track as The Young Night, while the record label gives The Young Knight, the title most sources use
• The album and the earlier Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall (1963) share the same concert
• Side B's Vanetihu is credited to Gil Alderna

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

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