This shit just works on so many levels. Like most everything Nina Simone chose to cover throughout her career, this, her incredibly funky take of Aretha Franklin's "Save Me," adds a muscularity to Aretha's already powerful performance. No one emotes quite like Simone---who really gets inside the material and wrestles it, hell, exorcises it, from the inside out . . .
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