NINA SIMONE ~

 

NINA SIMONE ~

 

NINA SIMONE'S GUM ~

 

R E A D     M E

NINA SIMONE ~

 

NINA SIMONE ~

ANNIVERSARY TIME ~

 45 

NINA SIMONE AND PIANO ~

THE BALLAD OF HOLLIS BROWN ~

PIRATE JENNY ~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JANINE ~

Janine Pommy Vega
5 February 1942

THE BALLAD OF HOLLIS BROWN ~

TWO HOURS WITH NINA SIMONE ~

IF THERE'S HELL BELOW ~

compiled by BA the night of ferguson, mo. grand jury release
disbelief disbelief disbelief
 chose not to indict
 Darren Wilson
 in the fatal shooting
 of Michael Brown
even after all these years
of knowing better
naturally
a verdict
for  us &
Thanksgiving

Mamie Till, summer 1955                                               Michael Brown Sr, summer 2014

Photograph: Chicago Sun-Times via AP                                                      Richard Perry / AFP / Getty      

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If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would receive the mirror image of that wound into himself.

W E N D E L L   B E R RY
The Hidden Wound
1970




NEW YORK TIMES ~

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/opinion/the-meaning-of-the-ferguson-riots.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region



http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop

NINA SIMONE ~

It's Spring in northern New England after a very long winter.
Just like that, our snow in this valley is about gone in one flashy and warm with spring showers week. Don't say miracles don't happen.

What's to do but throw open any window I can after the sun gets up over Owl's Head range, 25 degrees the other morning but an April-25 degrees, warming by the moment. We're out there on saw-horses building all day standing in snow melt and mud and grass showing forth. The river our constant companion, loud and clear.

Just in case there is still one person who may have never heard this song,  it's well worth repeating it all here. Nina Simone is on right now where we work outdoors, live recording, the only way to go with this temptress. No one like her. Maybe in deepest Africa a girl is singing like this right now. Unless she has a Madonna t-shirt on; then she's been touched. Nina Simone is all drum. All river.

KISSES ~

Nina Simone

last year's love