Silver City Bound/When I Was A Young Girl/Erets Zavat Chalav/Lass Of The Low Country/The Young Night/Twelfth Of Never/Vanetihu/You Can Sing A Rainbow-Hush Little Baby
Folksy Nina consists of tracks with traditional folk themes recorded at Nina Simone’s concert at Carnegie Hall in May 1963, including some of Israeli origin.
“Her voice is the real attraction here. But the band seems to be a bit bored and don’t catch up to her pretty flawless and passionate performance. Not too bad a starting point.”
“Another good live concert by Nina Simone, she continues picking out songs like The Young Knight, which features her doing an overall dark performance. She continues to pull material out of thin air like Erets Zavat Chalav, a Jewish song. The album overall is good, but some parts aren't as interesting as others.”
"This is a strong set concentrating on material that could be seen as traditional or folk in orientation. It's not strictly folk music, in repertoire or arrangement, Twelfth Of Never certainly isn't folk music. However, there was also an uptempo piano blues, Silver City Bound, covers of the Israeli Erets Zavat Chalav and Vanetihu, which serve as further proof that Simone’s eclecticism knew no bounds. The stark, moody, spiritually shaded ballads at which she excelled When I Was A Young Girl, Hush Little Baby and Lass Of The Low Country are as exquisitely sad-yet-beautiful as it gets.”
“It comprises further material from her Carnegie Hall concert. It is smooth and middle of the road but most of all classy. Nina's Colpix output stands out as dated compared to her Philips and RCA releases. However, it is always worth investigating because the genius is still there and that classical piano style is wonderful.”
“For those of us living in an age where music has to be 'defined and categorized', this LP does not fit into that mould. How do you describe an artist whose repertoire of songs range all over the map, from children's lullabies to Israeli folk song to Tin Pan Alley standards and back to blues and jazz? Nina's voice is tender and caressing on some tracks, bluesy and mournful on others. She is just one unique artist.”
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