Black Vocals

Hoje podia fazer uma resenha do blues, do old jazz e até do funk, mas julgo não ter calibre para falar desta senhora e do seu High Priestess of Soul (1966).

Indispensável em qualquer prateleira ou ipod que se preze.

Como Milles? Uma espécie de camaleão? Parece que sim. Mas a Nina Simone valem-lhe ainda estas tranversais temáticas poéticas.

Tanto diz :

Stay with me and let them see, let them know that you love me,

That you love me, if it's true who cares what they do?

Cause I don't need anyone but you.

Just you and me, we're gonna make it all alone.

Let them laugh at us, we're gonna build a world all our own,

Keep on then, keep on holdin on to me, they'll learn in time.

I really love you, so don't you pay em' no mind.

in Don't You Pay Them No Mind

Como isto:

I commited crime, Lord I needed,

Crime of being hungry and poor

I left the grocery store man breathing

When they caught me robbing his store

Hold it steady right there while I hit it

Well I reckon that ought to get it been working and working

But I still got so terribly far to go.

in Work Song, numa explícita crítica à exploração capitalista norte-americana.