Hello lovely listeners, Kirk here with another episode from The Archives.

This time a deep look into Nina Simone's famous rendition of Sinner Man, which originally

aired in March of 2020.

As you probably know I've been taking a break after hitting 100 episodes of Strong Songs.

I'm currently working on some creative projects, practicing and expanding my abilities, on

a number of instruments that mostly guitar and vocals, and I'm chewing on how I might grow

and evolve Strong Songs when I return to making regular episodes of this show just to keep

things as engaging as possible and to make sure that I avoid burnout and I'm able to keep

making this show for as long as possible.

I also know that some folks haven't listened all of my episodes, so I decided I'd start

resurfacing all of their episodes to give people a chance to check them out or to re-listen

if it's been a while.

This episode about Nina Simone's Sinner Man remains one of the only live recordings

that I've covered on Strong Songs, listening back to what makes me think I should really

cover some more live music, like I know a mini-series or something, maybe a concert

film watch along, I don't know, so they like that.

Live music might be less produced, it offers fewer layers and studio tricks to analyze,

but it's also, it's so elemental, it's where music first happened, it's where music will

always live in the spaces between each individual performer and between those performers and

their audience.

So I should really talk about more live music, I should also make more live music.

Live music is where it's at.

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