tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460537495421082815.post6776333808676957793..comments2024-03-28T20:20:35.595-07:00Comments on Zero G Sound : Nina Simone - Broadway Blues Ballads (1964)zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06780173748528969886noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460537495421082815.post-12592044746284530472017-11-22T17:21:29.503-08:002017-11-22T17:21:29.503-08:00Many thanks for posting so much of Ms. Simone'...Many thanks for posting so much of Ms. Simone's work on this blog. Frankly, I enjoy even her lesser offerings. Like Paul Robeson, whose career was destroyed during the mad era of the McCarty and HUAC hearings, Simone's success was compromised in her own country by public reaction to her political activism and, to a lesser extent, her mental illness. We in the United States were and are fortunate that her voice was not silenced as effectively as Robeson's was.<br /><br />You post so much great music by world artists whose lives were dedicated to enduring great struggle and sacrifice to work for change and fairness, equity, and economic justice in modern society. I don't know about other followers but I find such posts incredibly uplifting and inspirational during what is otherwise a bleak and unpredictable time in which western representative democracy is threatened by the excesses of unrestrained capitalism, obscene disparities in wealth and control of resources, irrational nationalism and intolerance, and reactionary clamoring for authoritarian rule. I hope it doesn't ring as overly dramatic when I write that, notwithstanding the present issues confronting us, I always feel that I am listening to and being inspired by the counsel and artistry of wise elders and gaining from both their missteps and successes. Many of them may be gone now but we still have their words, art, and voices thanks to what you do. Ich bin Ihnen sehr dankbar für die wunderbaren Geschenke!!! Feilimid O'Broinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01684099397717301472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460537495421082815.post-35832210078705216772017-11-22T02:26:43.361-08:002017-11-22T02:26:43.361-08:00Strange stew indeed.Strange stew indeed.muddyw123https://www.blogger.com/profile/07828313007781009753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460537495421082815.post-71007947653218184012015-03-11T13:26:54.077-07:002015-03-11T13:26:54.077-07:00You are welcome!You are welcome!zerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06780173748528969886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460537495421082815.post-25025873389080154162015-03-11T07:36:01.520-07:002015-03-11T07:36:01.520-07:00ThanksThankslemonflaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16591381076744576088noreply@blogger.com