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"Sinner Man" or "Sinnerman" is a song written by Les Baxter and Will Holt, and often performed in the style of an African American traditional spiritual song. It has been recorded by a number of performers and has been incorporated in many other media and arts. The lyrics describe a sinner attempting to hide from divine justice on Judgment Day.
According to Tom Schnabel of KCRW, [3] he was told that Nina Simone's "See-line Woman" was a 19th-century seaport song about sailors coming into port (such as Charleston or New Orleans) and prostitutes waiting for them, lined up along the dock, hence the term 'sea line' (a line of women by the sea) or alternatively, "see-line" (women standing ...
She is the subject of Nina: A Story About Me and Nina Simone, a one-woman show first performed in 2016 at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool—a "deeply personal and often searing show inspired by the singer and activist Nina Simone" [124] —and which in July 2017 ran at the Young Vic, before being scheduled to move to Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre ...
Will Holt (April 30, 1929 – May 31, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter, librettist and lyricist.He was known first and primarily as a folk performer during the 1950s, when he made early and influential recordings of such songs as "Sinner Man" and "Lemon Tree", for which he wrote the English lyrics.
Nina Simone began performing a rendition of "Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter" in 1971. [4] She recorded her performance at New York's Philharmonic Hall in July 1973. [5] It was released on her 1974 live album, It Is Finished, on RCA Records. [6]
A worldbeat album, Fodder on My Wings features an array of styles that reflect the "cultural dislocation" of Simone's time living in Liberia, Trinidad, Switzerland and Barbados. [6] According to critic John Lewis, "there are Afro-Cuban horn blasts, African drums and intense Caribbean rhythms, along with some very 1980s-sounding flirtations with ...
Meeting Nina Simone Flanagan wanted to take college courses to pursue writing, but needed money. She hoped for a job as a domestic worker, where room and board would likely be included and she ...
With lyrics such as "You're just plain rotten" and "You're too damn lazy", Simone mocks her racist oppressors by mimicking their language. [ 6 ] Miami University musicology professor Tammy Kernodle explains: "In Mississippi Goddam, we have Nina Simone pulling from the past and invoking it in the present, but also speaking to what is yet to come ...