Silk & Soul
Her second RCA Victor album, with a brother's songs and a Loudermilk cover.
Nina Simone, 1967
- Released
- October 1967
- Studio
- RCA Studio B, New York
- Label
- RCA Victor
- Producer
- Danny Davis
- Length
- 30:34
Simone played piano and sang, with Gene Taylor on bass, Eric Gale and Rudy Stevenson on guitar, Ernie Hayes on piano and harpsichord and Bernard Purdie on drums, with Sammy Lowe arranging and Ray Hall engineering. It reached number 158 on the Billboard 200 and 24 on the R&B album chart. "Go to Hell" earned a 1968 Grammy nomination for best female R&B vocal, losing to Aretha Franklin.
Track listing
- It Be's That Way Sometime
- The Look of Love
- Go to Hell
- Love o' Love
- Cherish
- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
- Turn Me On2:26
- Turning Point
- Some Say
- Consummation
Personnel
- Nina Simone piano, vocals
- Gene Taylor bass
- Bernard Purdie drums
- Danny Davis producer
More from Nina Simone
I Put a Spell on You (1965)
Where to go next
Reference
- Silk & Soul on Wikipedia The album's credits.
Sources
- Silk & Soul, Wikipedia