Artist: Nina Simone
Title: Protest Anthology
Label: Artwork Media/The Orchard
Released: April 08, 2008
Tracklist:


01 By Any Means Necessary - Interview (1:14)
02 Revolution (Weldon Irvine Jr, Nina Simone) (4:40)
03 Mississippi Goddamn - Interview (1:54)
04 Mississippi Goddamn (Nina Simone) (4:31)
05 Old Jim Crow - Interview (1:08)
06 Old Jim Crow (Ron Vander Groef, Jackie Alper, Nina Simone) (2:20)
07 Backlash Blues - Interview (2:45)
08 Backlash Blues (Langston Hughes, Nina Simone) 3:08
09 Four Women - Interview (2:14)
10 Four Women (Nina Simone) (4:10)
11 Nobody - Interview (1:27)
12 Nobody (Alex Rogers, Bert Williams) (5:09)
13 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (Richard Lamb, William Taylor) (4:54)
14 Strange Fruit - Interview (1:00)
15 Strange Fruit (Lewis Allen, Sonny White) (3:28)
16 Definition Of An Artist - Interview (3:05)
17 Why? The King Of Love Is Dead (Gene Taylor) (9:20)
18 To Be Young Gifted and Black - Interview (1:01)
19 To Be Young Gifted and Black (Nina Simone, Weldon Irvine Jr) (3:40)


Nina Simone is widely regarded as one of the most important jazz and blues revolutionaries of all time. Not only was she a Grammy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, pianist, and arranger, but she was also a staunch civil rights activist and voice for black America. In her lifetime, she recorded over 40 live and studio albums, spanning the genres of jazz, soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop music, and setting the stage for future generations of artists including Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Lauryn Hill, and many more

Here is Nina Simone in incredibly intense performances, sounding as passionate and comfortable belting out a rock song as she does singing jazz or blues. This new collection of never before seen video and live tracks dubbed "Protest Anthology" collects eight previously unreleased video interviews and 11 unheard live tracks of hit songs "Mississippi Goddamn," "Backlash Blues," "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black," and more in one package, and it will offer fans a look at the ΓÇ£High Priestess of SoulΓÇ¥ as she really was both on and off stage.

The first volume of a five-release series, these tracks contain some of Nina Simone's most political statements ever captured, and truly sum up her strong viewpoints on being black in America during the 1960s, viewpoints that surely would have been controversial in her time. These recordings are finally being unearthed under exclusive license from her ex-husband Andy Stroud.