'How Big How Blue How Beautiful' is powerful in all the best ways
Hold Our Fire is presented in a digipack and features eight concert performances of Dissolution tracks
Making of 'The Gate' - vintage featurette
‘Love Songs’ is now available as a 2022 remastered edition
The majority of the album was recorded at Modern Electric Sound Recorders in Dallas
Nina Simone In Concert Live At Carnegie Hall (Vinyl) BNPL Excluded 'How Big How Blue HowMississippi 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, especially, Mississippi