{"id":593,"date":"2011-05-16T16:04:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=593"},"modified":"2011-05-16T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:04:43","slug":"rebirth-of-the-cool-sinnerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/05\/16\/rebirth-of-the-cool-sinnerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebirth of the Cool: Sinnerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_Bn5tiuZU4JI\"><div id=\"lyte_Bn5tiuZU4JI\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Bn5tiuZU4JI\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Bn5tiuZU4JI\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Bn5tiuZU4JI\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nina Simone and the song &#8220;Sinnerman&#8221; go hand-in-hand. If you think of &#8220;Sinnerman&#8221;, you probably think of Nina&#8217;s version, and if you think of Nina, you probably thing of &#8220;Sinnerman&#8221;. Simone&#8217;s version is so authoritative and brilliant that you might not realize that she didn&#8217;t write the song. &#8220;Sinnerman&#8221; (or &#8220;Sinner Man&#8221;) began life as a traditional spiritual and many other people had a turn at it before Simone made it her own in 1965. For instance, king of exotica Les Baxter did it up with Will Holt on vocals in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_0ZWlE502g_4\"><div id=\"lyte_0ZWlE502g_4\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/0ZWlE502g_4\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/0ZWlE502g_4\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/0ZWlE502g_4\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kind of a shock after Simone&#8217;s version. It&#8217;s kind of&#8230; well&#8230; white. (Though not the whitest of the white. For that, check out versions by <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/rXA2cjPnPJ4\" target=\"blank\">the Weavers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/jvVExtWeQus\" target=\"blank\">Tommy Sands<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>Peter Tosh had a long relationship with the song, beginning in 1966 (some sources say 1964 or 1965) when he recorded it <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/PRloD7EN61o\" target=\"blank\">with the Wailers<\/a>. In the &#8217;70s, he changed the name to &#8220;Downpressor Man&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_zjoE6MiuQUM\"><div id=\"lyte_zjoE6MiuQUM\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/zjoE6MiuQUM\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/zjoE6MiuQUM\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/zjoE6MiuQUM\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the most recent versions was recorded by the Black Diamond Heavies for their 2008 album <i>A Touch of Someone Else&#8217;s Class<\/i>. It clearly draws from Simone&#8217;s version, shaping the song out with John Wesley Myers&#8217; distinctive Fender Rhodes sound and ravaged vocals. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_7036zC-bW6c\"><div id=\"lyte_7036zC-bW6c\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/7036zC-bW6c\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/7036zC-bW6c\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/7036zC-bW6c\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nina Simone and the song &#8220;Sinnerman&#8221; go hand-in-hand. If you think of &#8220;Sinnerman&#8221;, you probably think of Nina&#8217;s version, and if you think of Nina, you probably thing of &#8220;Sinnerman&#8221;. Simone&#8217;s version is so authoritative and brilliant that you might not realize that she didn&#8217;t write the song. &#8220;Sinnerman&#8221; &#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/05\/16\/rebirth-of-the-cool-sinnerman\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[536,535,471,533,534,108,1837],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-diamond-heavies","tag-les-baxter","tag-links","tag-nina-simone","tag-peter-tosh","tag-rebirth-of-the-cool","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rebirth of the Cool: Sinnerman -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/05\/16\/rebirth-of-the-cool-sinnerman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rebirth of the Cool: Sinnerman -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Nina Simone and the song &#8220;Sinnerman&#8221; go hand-in-hand. 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