''Folksy Nina'' is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It includes live tracks recorded on April 12, 1963, at

Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhatta ...

. The previous album, '' Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall'' (1963) uses songs from the same concert. It was released on Colpix Records.

Track listing

# "Silver City Bound" ( Huddie Ledbetter,

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) # "When I Was a Young Girl" ( Sebastian Mure) # "Erets Zavat Chalav" (Eliahu Gamliel) # "Lass of the Low Country" (Traditional) # " The Young Knight" (Joseph Hathaway, Charles Kingsly) # "

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" ( Jerry Livingston,

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) # "Vanetihu" (Gil Aldema) # " You Can Sing a Rainbow" ( Arthur Hamilton) # " Hush Little Baby" ( Pete Seeger) Remark: Track 8 is sometimes listed as "

Mighty Lak' a Rose "Mighty Lak' a Rose" is a 1901 song with lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton and music by Ethelbert Nevin. The lyrics are written in an approximation of an African American accent as a "dialect song", and the title thus means "mighty like a rose". It i ...

" (music by Ethelbert Nevin, lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton). "When I Was a Young Girl" was later covered by Julie Driscoll (as "When I was Young") on her 1969 album ''

Streetnoise ''Streetnoise'' is a 1969 album by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity, originally released as a double LP. It includes cover versions of The Doors’ " Light My Fire", Nina Simone’s "Take Me To The Water", Laura Nyro’s "Save the ...

,'' under the assumption it was a traditional tune.Julie Driscoll, interviewed on German television in 1969, before performing the song
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References

1964 live albums Nina Simone live albums Albums arranged by Nina Simone Colpix Records live albums Albums recorded at Carnegie Hall {{1960s-album-stub