Folksy Nina

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Folksy Nina
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Live album by
Released1964
RecordedApril 12, 1963
Genre Vocal, jazz, blues, folk
Length40:21
Label Colpix
Producer Jack Lewis
Nina Simone chronology
Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall
(1963)
Folksy Nina
(1964)
Nina Simone with Strings
(1966)

Folksy Nina is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It includes live tracks recorded on April 12, 1963, at Carnegie Hall. The previous album, Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall (1963) uses songs from the same concert. It was released on Colpix Records. In 2005 the "complete" 1963 Carnegie Hall concert was released. [1]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Silver City Bound" Huddie Ledbetter, Alan Lomax 5:08
2."When I Was a Young Girl" Sebastian Mure 5:57
3."Erets Zavat Chalav"Eliahu Gamaliel4:25
4."Lass of the Low Country"Traditional6:15
5."The Young Knight"Joseph Hathaway, Charles Kingsly5:25
6."The Twelfth of Never" Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster 3:33
7."Vanetihu"Gil Aldema2:27
8."You Can Sing a Rainbow" Arthur Hamilton 3:04
9."Hush Little Baby" Pete Seeger 4:07
Total length:40:21

Remark: Track 8 is sometimes listed as "Mighty Lak' a Rose" (music by Ethelbert Nevin, lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton). "When I Was a Young Girl" was later covered by Julie Driscoll (as "When I was Young") on her 1969 album Streetnoise, under the assumption it was a traditional tune. [2]

References

  1. "Nina Simone - At Carnegie Hall". Discogs.com. June 2, 2005. Retrieved June 2, 2025.
  2. Julie Driscoll, interviewed on German television in 1969, before performing the song (Online). Retrieved December 24, 2018.