The Vinyl Countdown # 1052

Nina Simone, Baltimore (1978)

I dig a lot of Nina Simone music – she was certainly something else. That voice. That playing. The hardship – the intensity – it can’t have been nice living in her head, or with that head. But so much of the music is wonderful. In recent years I’ve become hooked on her version of the song Baltimore. A favourite, one of so ma…