remembering Medgar Evers on the anniversary of his assassination
Mississippi GoddamOn June 12, 1963, American civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in the driveway outside of his home in Jackson, Mississippi
Hutch...I'd like to enlist your help on finding more info on this
I've done some googling to find out where this particular recording is from
this one is from Nina Simone – The Very Best Of Nina Simone, 1967-1972 : Sugar In My Bowl
I can't find any information about it, but it was obviously recorded after 4/4/68
at 3:00 she says 'the king of love is dead, I ain't about to be non-violent honey'
but I can't find it on any live recordings of this song in this era?
From what I can tell it was recorded at the 'nuff said! concert but left off the release
One of Simone’s most powerful concerts, captured on the ’Nuff Said! album, took place at Westbury Music Fair on 7 April 1968, three days after Dr King was shot dead. She grieved on a brand-new song called Why? (The King of Love Is Dead), then raged on a white-knuckle version of Mississippi Goddam. “The king of love is dead,” she said. “I ain’t ‘bout to be nonviolent, honey!”
also at 1.24 when she does that verse "and I even stoped believing in prayer' has always struck me as the entire inspiration of Nick Caves musical career
