*“Feeling Good,” rendered extraordinary by Nina Simone, is a song from the 1964 musicalThe Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, composed by Anthony Newley and Lesley Bricusse. Simone’s now-classic interpretation takes the song into a new place, and so richly that the sourc...
"Feeling Good" wasn't sung on stage by one of the two leads but by a character called "the Negro". Nina Simone came across the number and made one of those records that was never a big Top Ten hit but wound up lasting longer than ninety per cent of the ones that were: And, as ...
Mike Nilles… Lead/background vocals, lead/rythm guitars, songwriter, founder of the group … plays guitar with taste and feeling … writes and enjoys music with seductive melodies and thoughtful lyrics … plays many instruments … also works a recording engineer … musical faves: Beatles, Byrds...
In Crowd, Nina in Concert [Nina Simone], Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday, Ella, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk Around Midnight and Brilliant Corners.’ I drew designs for revolving speakers, which I hoped to use in my
Nina Simone - "The More I See You" The more I see you The more I want you Somehow this feeling Just grows and grows and grows With every sigh, I become more mad about you More lost without you And so it goes Can you imagine How much... Madeleine Peyroux - "I'm All Right" He...
“Black Twitter” (whatever that means) would like you to believe that Azealia is a 21st century lovechild of Nina Simone andMoms Mabley, while Iggy is just a cultural appropriator, an interloper looking to make several million fast-twerking bucks off of hip-hop culture. On the other hand,...
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough. —Nina Simone 211 Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of...
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I feel like including a song byJoanna Newsomabout time here, (another January Capricorn), because I think he would’ve loved this one. It came out the year before he died, so who knows – maybe he did: When I think about his life and death and legacy, these lyrics really say it fo...
says, “it’d be best to stack a minor 6th chord on top of your tonic, then flat the fifth, and add a 13th over that—it’s so musically insane, it’s perfect. Especially since it becomes a great way to end it—so up in the air and unresolved, you know—like the lyrics imply...