Nina Simone
I Shall Be Released
Sugar In My Bowl
(1972)

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LizK
Mar 19, 2013 - 11:58
Very redstorm wrote:

I can hear this song, being played at my funeral, and all my family and friends singing along, and smiling as they know I have moved to a better, happier place. I love the juxaposition, of this and S&G's Mrs. Robinson, both saying goodbye.....




Very good plan. And I would want to finish with "Layla". Seems to me a song for ending things. {#Motor}


d-don
Mar 19, 2013 - 11:56
With my upcoming retirement, I'm turning these lyrics into something personal. Any day now, I shall be released.


mfcrowe
Jan 15, 2013 - 19:08
No offense Bob, Rick, Levon, Garth, Richard and Robbie - you guys are unparalleled but this gal does a much better cover of this song than you guys!


cShaggy
Dec 15, 2012 - 10:04
..thx RP..


4merdj
Aug 11, 2012 - 15:55
I just love her voice and her approach to interpreting songs ... {#Clap}


jjak
May 08, 2012 - 18:02
Sloggydog wrote:
For me, in my head, I always hear this one by The Band




I feel exactly the same. Sorry Nina...
Stranglersfan
Mar 06, 2012 - 08:02
Love it!


whomhow
Feb 03, 2012 - 15:41
more Nina Simone, please!


sieversfam
Oct 31, 2011 - 12:00
I like Jerry's frailty the Jerry Garcia Band's renditionion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFiIJ4vW2IU

Course, the JGB double LP/Cassette/CD/Digital release version is kick-butt.




Xeric
Sep 29, 2011 - 18:33
templefrost wrote:

No


Agreed



Hannio
Aug 29, 2011 - 08:58
Yep. Any day now. I'm holding my breath.


Cynaera
Jun 27, 2011 - 13:48
I really love Nina Simone's voice, but this song is just not doing it for me. One of her background vocalists is off-key - just enough dissonance that the whole track was out of whack, to my ears. (Romeotuma, can I borrow your ears to make this song good for me? What a pal you are! {#Mrgreen} )


bseib
Jun 27, 2011 - 13:44
Nina, you are incredible!


Sloggydog
May 26, 2011 - 22:19
For me, in my head, I always hear this one by The Band


newwavegurly
Feb 21, 2011 - 08:25
I see my light come shining
From the West down to the East
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released...

Yes, you will. You will indeed.


helgigermany
Nov 18, 2010 - 23:08
I prefer the Bob version!


kcar
Oct 18, 2010 - 07:14
Love the backing vocals on this song...


petrfas
Oct 18, 2010 - 07:10
coding_to_music wrote:
This guy sings great

:)


lemmoth
Sep 16, 2010 - 12:46
Wonderful song, thanks Bob. Brilliant version - thanks to the incredibly eclectic and enormously talented Nina.


michaelc
Jul 14, 2010 - 14:30
She is just SOOOOOO KWEL


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