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Tell It Like It Is

by Nina Simone · from Sugar In My Bowl: The Very Best of Nina Simone 1967-1972

1998Jazz3:52Track 13

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Review by DeShawn Price★★★★★Sample

“Tell It Like It Is” at 2am with headphones on is a religious experience.

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Review by Nadia Haddad★★★★Sample

Nina Simone really said 'let me ruin your whole week' and then did it beautifully.

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Disc 1
1
My Man's Gone Now
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4:16
2
Since I Fell for You
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2:48
3
I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl
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2:31
4
Do I Move You (Version II)
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2:17
5
Blues for Mama
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3:57
6
Backlash Blues
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2:27
7
In the Dark
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2:53
8
Consummation
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4:11
9
Go to Hell
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2:47
10
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
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3:09
11
The Turning Point
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2:01
12
Turn Me On
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2:28
13
The Look of Love
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2:22
14
To Love Somebody
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2:41
15
I Can't See Nobody
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3:14
16
In the Morning
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2:41
17
Do What You Gotta Do
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3:35
18
Ain't Got No (I Got Life) [From "Hair"]
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2:17
19
Please Read Me
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2:46
20
Sunday In Savannah
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6:00
21
Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)
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6:40
22
Mississippi Goddam
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5:30
Disc 2
1
I Think It's Going to Rain Today
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3:27
2
I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
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4:54
3
Nobody's Fault But Mine (Remixed)
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3:01
4
Another Spring
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3:32
5
Compassion (A.k.A. Compensation)
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1:37
6
Seems I'm Never Tired Lovin' You
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3:00
7
I Shall Be Released
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4:01
8
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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2:52
9
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
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4:50
10
Suzanne
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5:13
11
My Father / Dialog
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1:41
12
Jelly Roll
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8:12
13
Tell It Like It Is
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3:52
14
Mr. Bojangles
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4:59
15
Here Comes the Sun
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3:47
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O-O-H Child
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3:17
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Poppies
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4:45
18
22nd Century
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8:44