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nina simone performs “i wish i knew how it would feel to be free” at the montreux jazz festival, 1976, switzerland
Nina Simone (1933-2003) posed in London in June 1968.
photo: David Redfern/Redferns
Ant Fate for Breakfast lovers out there?
(some) musicians and breakfast ☕️🥞🥓🍳🥣
bob dylan / michelle phillips & cass elliot / bruce springsteen / the beatles / nina simone / the jam / pete townshend / millie small / art garfunkel
You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
-Nina Simone
my plan is to post aesthetic pictures of Bob dylan for fellow queers to reblog to lure them into following my blog, where they will have to learn the history of folk music as a a traditional tool for protest and labor and the many leftist origins of folk and the ways this is often overlooked and erased especially when it comes to black artists
oh hey, unrelated, check out this cool song by paul robeson in 1924 :)
or this rendition of Strange Fruit by Josh White (1964)
or this song by Odetta in 1957
or this song by lead belly in 1936
or this Gospel song by the Freedom Singers in 1961
or this song 1961
or this song by Nina Simone in 1965
Nina Simone - Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass. - 1969, Smithsonian Institution
Song of The Day
"Mississippi Goddam" Nina Simone, 1964 "Mississippi Godamn" was written in 1963 in response to the Baptist Street Church Bombing, when the KKK bombed a church and killed 4 black young girls. It also contains references to other racist murders, like the death of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers.
She considered it to be her first Civil Rights song and her debut in the Civil Rights movement. She first performed the song live in Los Angeles, and then again in NYC in 1963. it was released in 1964. She said
"And I was beginning to get angry then. First you get depressed and then you get mad. And when these kids got bombed, I sat down and wrote this song. And it’s a very moving, violent song cause that’s how I feel about the whole thing."
This song is one of the best songs ever written.
Nina Simone, Miles Davis.
University of Massachusetts Archives, 1963
Nina Simone Flier
Nina Simone and James Baldwin photographed by Bernard Gotfryd in the 1960s.
Conscious of the moral failure and of not acting with the knowledge of the facts, I agree unreservedly.
Satan more or less
However, I think that the song was written out of a different motivation of disappointment. But the title fits the theme as cruelly as one can express it.
