Schnipper’s Slept On
- story Matthew Schnipper
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Nina Simone’s At Newport LP. (Though Slept On usually covers more recent releases, this is a record Schnipper discovered he was sleeping on in his own collection.) Listen to “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To,” buy the album (cheap!) and read Schnipper’s thoughts after the jump.
NYC Film: Nina Simone – Great Performances
- story Rosemary Simon
Andy Stroud’s rare-footage documentary, Nina Simone Great Performances: College Concerts and Interviews, opens at The Maysles Institute in New York City tonight. Stroud was Simone’s husband and manager and when we chose to feature her as one of our Icons in FADER 38, he provided great insight into her unique character and misunderstood personality. We also spoke with Stroud and Simone’s daughter—both interviews are republished here in full, heartbreaking glory. If legendary concert footage and timeworn interviews with the high priestess of soul are not enough to get you to travel up above 125th St. tonight, Maysles is also showing the first-ever documentary made about Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music, from 1969. Split your brain like a dolphin and watch both documentaries at once.
Video: Nina Simone, “Dont You Pay Them No Mind” + FADER Cover Story
- story THE FADER
In September, Legacy Recordings released To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story, a three-cd + dvd collection spanning the legendary singer’s career, from her debut on Little Girl Blue to her final recordings on A Single Woman. The dvd makes available for the first time a 1970 documentary of Simone, which is excerpted in the video above.
The box set has since been nominated for a Grammy, so, to get the judges hyped and to give hints to our secret Santas, we are republishing segments of our own Nina Simone story from the FADER Number 38 Icon/Photo Issue. First, her daughter Simone speaks about growing up in and eventually growing out of her mother’s shadow, and then, Nina’s ex-husband Andy Stroud reveals some of the private moments that illustrated the singer’s difficult brilliance. Read both after the jump along with photos from the issue.
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posted on Dec 15, 2008 in MUSIC
Schnipper’s Slept On
- story THE FADER
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s U.S. Girls’ “Kankakee” 7-inch. Download a live version of “I Can Hear Music” from the record (along with a number of other live songs), buy the 7-inch from Cherry Burger Records and read Schnipper’s thoughts on the record after the jump.
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posted on Oct 14, 2008 in SLEPT ON
