Nina Simone

Oh. My. God.


Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings from Verve
Here's a sample of one of the songs that just about slayed me:

Images

She does not know
Her beauty,
She thinks her brown body
Has no glory.
If she could dance
Naked,
Under palm trees
And see her image in the river
She would know.
But there are no palm trees
On the street,
And dishwater gives back no images.

(think a capella, smokywhiskey voice, nightclub jazz, the real thing......)