The One and Only Nina Simone and Her Incredible Timeless 1965 Interpretation of the Traditional African American Spiritual Cinderman

On this episode we are going to be talking about Nina Simone and her incredible timeless 1965 interpretation of the traditional African American spiritual cinderman. I first heard this song actually during the climactic art heist sequence at the end of the 1999 remake of the Thomas Crown Affair, which by the way is a very good movie. This recording is a very important recording that kind of just keeps cropping up in the culture over and over. If you like me feel like you knew Nina Simone's name but you maybe just thought she was a singer you weren't aware that she's also an incredible piano player or that she was a major figure in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

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