Uploaded by Comus89 on Aug 14, 2008
Exuma cover (orginal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2uovHCJHk4 )
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One of the most harrowing songs ever. Nina delivers it perfectly, with a barely controlled righteous rage against slave traders. The piano playing is superb and the understated percussion and sitar work well. It's great that it is now on You Tube but it's not exactly easy listening.
3 years ago 10
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Nina Simone covering Exuma...wow. Both are very powerful....Dig the sitar drone throughout, and the mbira. Nina gets the message gets across big time. Slave drivers better keep their empathy, that includes us all - you can't treat people so wrong for long and expect not to pay somehow. You might kill your own soul, then what will you do? Then it's too late.
2 years ago 9
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@beowulven : since when does anti-salvery, anti-discrimination equate racist? Quit being silly, child.
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@beowulven No problem buddy.
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Understood! Cheers.
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@beowulven Did I not just say that Nina Simone was NOT a racist? Nina resented CERTAIN white people, and a black person doing that in 1960's America is not much of a fault/shock to me. If the racial roles/situation in the Civil Rights Movement had been historically reversed, and black people were the ones that were responsible for holding white people down in every known way, then I would not fault white people resenting CERTAIN black people of the time and place, either.
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So, some types of racism are to be excused...?
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@beowulven Nina Simone did not HATE white people, although she did unarguably possess a lot of resentment for white people of the time and period in which she lived in America... and I imagine that it would have been quite hard NOT to hold ill feelings towards white people if you were a black person that were living in the first three quarters of twentieth century America...
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Nina Simone hated white folk. Oh well, it happens.
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@beowulven Explain?
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Racists make good music.
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wow that is powerful
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Aww, the original version's been taken down =(
Comus89 3 years ago