Nina Simone: Nina Simone In Concert LP (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) ETJS-59.2 Staring at the Wall

Staring at the Wall

In the original liner notes

One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

What Day Is It

17 September - 28 October 1965

Nina Simone: Nina Simone In Concert LP (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) ETJS-59.2 Staring at the WallPhilips, 1964 "Mississippi Goddam" staked out Nina Simone's support of the Civil Rights movement when this album debuted in 1964, helping make it probably the most personal album that Simone issued during her stay on Philips during the decade. Here, the singer and pianist is backed by a spare quartet, and some of the songs rank among her most socially conscious declarations of African American pride: 'Old Jim Crow,' 'Pirate Jenny,' 'Go Limp,' and,