The Laziest Girl in Town

Asleep at the Wheel's feminine ideal is pregnant with possibility

"...Really sing.' I started listening to Betty Carter and Nina Simone the way [Bob Wills' Texas] Playboys showed the..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Station to Station

Fattening up the Thin White Duke

"...to the playback for "Wild Is the Wind," a Nina Simone cover, Bowie relates: "This has a good European..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Elizabeth McQueen

"...unexpected turn to the world of Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. More surprisingly, McQueen composed seven of the tunes..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Mississippi: GODDAMN!

New blogger Claire goes off on the prom fracas in MS.

"..."Mississippi ranks last in the nation on overall human..."

April 7, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Claire Harrison

A Decade Under the Influence

The 'Chronicle' movie critics take a look back at what the Aughts wrought

"...Julie Delpy's Nina Simone coo at the end of Before Sunset..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

After the Deluge...

Comes the fall flood

"...unlike anyone else, covering Africa in the late Sixties, Nina Simone, Mother Jones, and other topics songwriters would never..."

Oct. 14, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...but overall R&B got Pentagon money: Aretha, Diana, Roberta. Nina Simone (Baltimore), Anita Baker, Santigold, and the 2-CD encore..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

On The Banality of Evil…

In the Rainbow Lounge incident, unlike so many, there are clear winners and losers. The winners get to walk away.

"...of progress we've made in the interim. Remember that Nina Simone song, "Mississippi Goddamn"? I've been singing the chorus..."

July 2, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing Thursday night SXSW 09 talent

"...has been compared to everyone from Jeff Buckley to Nina Simone, but we like to think of him as..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature

SchoolJam Daze

Teen bands take home awards

"...her performance at the Victory Grill’s recent tribute to Nina Simone; she and the band will be receiving more..."

March 2, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Quee-r-eminiscence! -or- California Goddamn

Since the election I haven't come out of my hidey-hole...

"...will have to be comfortable with change, that as Nina Simone once intoned, is "too slow."..."

Nov. 12, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

ACL Fest Sunday Reviews

"...LP comes littered with shades of the past. Evoking Nina Simone's "Four Women" tremble, Cee-Lo Green haunts the reverb-twinge..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

"...in Bridgewater recasting her own "Afro Blue" and covering Nina Simone's "Four Women." The disc's title track tapped a..."

July 4, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Rock & Roll Summer Reading

"...music: Dionne Warwick, Tramaine Hawkins, Chaka Khan, the late Nina Simone, and others. Informal and honest, Barnett shines in..."

May 30, 2008 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Allison Moorer

"...an instrument that's muscular yet distinctively dulcet as well. Nina Simone's "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl"..."

April 25, 2008 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Thursday Sleepers

"...between Cassandra Wilson and Jill Scott by way of Nina Simone. – Jay Trachtenberg Squincy Jones..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

The Song Remains the Same

Led Zeppelin reunion boot

"...bulging blues jeans and Viking wails. Better he moan Nina Simone in Sanskrit than question whether anyone remembers laughter...."

Feb. 13, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Jazzin' Up Catfish Row

After 70 years, Zach creates a Porgy and Bess for Austin

"...introduction to this beautiful score. Digging deeper, I discovered Nina Simone's moving recordings and the wonderful recording made by..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

Greg Bolin: Non-Austin Austin Composer

The score on rescoring Porgy and Bess

"...and Ella Fitzgerald, Cleo Laine and Ray Charles, and Nina Simone, among others. To take all those artistic voices..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

NFL Preview

"...but I see the Mike Nolan era as a Nina Simone song: it’s all been slowly building to this..."

Sept. 3, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Joe Strummer: 'Punk Rock Warlord'

"...Strummer play deejay, spinning Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Tim Hardin, Nina Simone (the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody"), and the..."

May 15, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Yusuf

"...appeal "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" should stay with Nina Simone, and "Whispers From a Spiritual Garden" whiffs Jim..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Rock & Roll Books

Gift Guide

"...recently deceased father through the descriptions of a '70 Nina Simone performance, Diana Ossana laments the disastrous effect the..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Jolie Holland

Record review

"...As soon as LP closer "Mexican Blue" conjures up Nina Simone, Holland stamps it all her own with that..."

May 5, 2006 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Sweet Soul Music

Sweet Soul Music

"...pours, sampled beats undulating with Wilson's narcotic moan like Nina Simone on a bear-skin rug – never better than..."

April 14, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...debut, On My Way to See You, draws from Nina Simone ("Lili Marlene"), Edith Piaf ("La Vie En Rose"),..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

My SXSW

Tres Chicas' Caitlin Cary

"...us his last two clean towels, and played rare Nina Simone on his expensive speakers. We won't remember him...."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Caitlin Cary

How to Make a Piñata

Honorable mention

"...are your Nonie's pearl earrings. Some Virginia Wolff, some Nina Simone, some dark chocolate. Here's the recipe for seven..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Books Feature by Jenny Browne

Larkin's Journey

New York choreographer Regina Larkin keeps coming back to Ballet East

"...and terminal illness to the melodies of Roberta Flack, Nina Simone, and Miles Davis...."

Dec. 2, 2005 Arts Feature by Patti Hadad

Jeff Buckley

Gift guide

"...genre gamut from Hank Williams to Bukka White and Nina Simone, all of them revealing his joy for different..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

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