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     Artist  | Nina Simone
     Title   | To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story

     Genre   | Soul                                 Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 234:06

     Label   | RCA                                  Store   | 2008
     Catalog | 88697 11009 2                        Rip     | 2021

     Bitrate | 687 kbps                             Size    | 1201.40 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1

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     CD 1/3

     01. Mood Indigo                                                 4:02
     02. I Loves You Porgy                                           4:10
     03. My Baby Just Cares For Me                                   3:38
     04. Nobody Knows You When Youre Down And Out                    2:39
     05. You Can Have Him (Live)                                     5:56
     06. Wild Is The Wind (Live)                                     3:34
     07. Trouble In Mind (Live)                                      5:35
     08. When Malindy Sings Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Live)           5:40
         (Previously Unreleased)
     09. See-Line Woman                                              2:37
     10. Pirate Jenny (Live)                                         6:40
     11. Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood                                2:45
     12. I Put A Spell On You                                        2:36
     13. Ne Me Quitte Pas                                            3:36
     14. Feeling Good                                                2:55
     15. Four Women                                                  4:25
     16. My Man's Gone Now                                           4:17
     17. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free                  3:09
     18. To Love Somebody                                            2:40
     19. Sunday In Savannah (Live)                                   3:18
     20. Backlash Blues (Live)                                       3:32

     CD 2/3

     01. Mississippi Goddam (Live)                                   6:55
     02. In The Morning                                              2:43
     03. Aint Got No I Got Life (Alternate Version) (Previously      2:58
         Unreleased In The US)
     04. Do What You Gotta Do                                        3:01
     05. Seems Im Never Tired Loving You                             3:02
     06. Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues                                  4:50
     07. The Times They Are A-Changin                                5:56
     08. Turn Turn Turn (To Everything There Is A Season)            3:41
     09. The Other Woman (Live)                                      6:01
     10. I Think Its Going To Rain Today (Live)                      4:44
     11. Save Me (Live)                                              3:33
     12. Revolution (Live)                                           6:23
     13. To Be Young Gifted And Black                                2:50
     14. Black Is The Color Of My True Loves Hair (Live)             3:25
     15. Westwind (Live)                                             8:48
     16. Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Live)                        4:59
     17. Suzanne (Live) (Previously Unreleased In The US)            5:02

     CD 3/3

     01. No Opportunity Necessary No Experience Needed (Live)        4:51
     02. Just Like A Woman                                           4:52
     03. Here Comes The Sun                                          3:34
     04. Tanywey (Previously Unreleased)                             3:27
     05. Funkier Than A Mosquitos Tweeter (Live)                     5:17
     06. My Sweet Lord Today Is A Killer (Live)                     18:19
     07. Let It Be Me (Live) (Previously Unreleased)                 5:02
     08. Poppies                                                     4:47
     09. Mr. Bojangles (Live)                                        4:52
     10. I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl (Live)                     5:47
     11. Nina (Live) (Previously Unreleased)                         4:13
     12. Zungo (Live) (Previously Unreleased)                        4:19
     13. Baltimore                                                   4:39
     14. A Single Woman                                              3:32

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     Nina Simone was one of the most gifted vocalists of her generation,
     and also one of the most eclectic. Simone was a singer, pianist, and
     songwriter who bent genres to her will rather than allowing herself
     to be confined by their boundaries; her work swung back and forth
     between jazz, blues, soul, classical, R&B, pop, gospel, and world
     music, with passion, emotional honesty, and a strong grasp of
     technique as the constants of her musical career.

     There's no question that Simone is richly deserving of a three-CD
     (plus one DVD), 51-song box set such as "To Be Free". From the late
     '50s until her death, she was one of the great unclassifiable pop
     singers of the 20th century, and if her voluminous recording career
     was erratic, the first 15 years at any rate had many highlights. Any
     complaint about this particular package has more to do with the
     balance of eras represented than the quality of the contents, which
     is generally very good. If one is to criticize, however, it's that
     it does seem heavily weighted toward her 1967-1973 recordings for
     RCA, which take up about two-thirds of the three audio discs.

     Perhaps that's because it's on the RCA/Legacy label, but certainly a
     good case could be made that her pre-1967 recordings for a variety
     of other companies (most often Philips) were worthy of greater
     representation. To focus on the positives, however, most of disc one
     does include strong pre-RCA tracks from the first decade of her
     recording career, including some of her best-known classics of the
     time, like "My Baby Just Cares For Me", "Don't Let Me Be
     Misunderstood", "See-Line Woman", "I Put A Spell On You," and "Four
     Women". While the RCA era arguably saw her move too much into
     pop-oriented production on occasion and too many covers of pop/rock
     hits, the selections from that era are chosen with intelligence,
     including a good number of live tracks.

     The two post-1973 cuts - one from 1978 and one from her final proper
     album, 1993's "A Single Woman" - seem like afterthoughts to ensure
     that most of her career was covered in some way, but that's
     justifiable considering that the last three decades of her life saw
     little in the way of noteworthy recordings. Though there's not much
     in the way of rarities, the set also does contain half a dozen
     previously unreleased live tracks of merit; four songs from the
     hard-to-find album "A Very Rare Evening", recorded live in Germany
     in April 1969; and a couple (a live cover of Leonard Cohen's
     'Suzanne' and an alternate version of 'Ain't Got No I Got Life')
     that make their first US appearance.

     The most tantalizing item for serious Simone fans is the DVD of a
     1970 television special, though it turns out to be a little less
     exciting than one might have hoped. Lasting just 23 minutes, it
     intersperses scenes of her recording in the studio and performing
     on-stage (most of the songs being fragments, highlighted by a
     complete live version of 'Go To Hell') with interview snippets in
     which Simone offers basic comments on the rewards and difficulties
     of being a creative musician.

     Still, in all this is a very good box set illustrating Simone's
     facility at jumping between and blending numerous genres, including
     soul, pop, rock, jazz, Broadway, classical, and even (on the
     previously unissued 1973 live performance 'Nina') world fusion music
     of sorts with backing by sitar and kalimba. Just don't necessarily
     take it as a summation of all her greatest work, with much more from
     the pre-1967 period in particular thankfully available to
     investigate on other CDs.

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