Nina Simone ‘You’ve Got To Learn’ Verve Records The art of Nina Simone is the art of transformation. This becomes abundantly clear on “You’ve Got To Learn,” a previously unreleased concert recording ...

As Ben Edmonds points out in the liner notes to this week's featured CD Just Like a Woman: Nina Simone Sings Songs of the 1960s, Simone could have easily been describing herself when she said of ...

Simone's own "I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl is a cathouse blues in the classic Bessie Smith tradition: "I want some steam on my clothes / what's the matter daddy, come on save my soul / I ain't ...

The complexities of Simone’s music was made evident when her RCA debut, "Nina Simone Sings the Blues," dropped in April 1967.

With its blues-guitar vamps, harmonica wails, and Willie Dixon remake, 1967’s Sings the Blues lives up to its title. Yet for Simone, ”blues” was never a simple word.

As I was getting ready for class, running late as ever, I couldn't help but stop and listen to a program streaming from my alarm clock radio entitled "Dr. Nina Simone: Forever Young, Gifted, and ...