Where is to start w/Nina Simone?

Nuff Said is a standout. live album recorded the day after MLK jr was assasinated, she makes the show count.

I haven't heard too much of the RCA years & onward yet. I've got a few of the discs from the mid-sixties albums for Philips, big budgets and arrangements. "Sinnerman" is from Pastel Blues -- that song, along with "Love Me or Leave Me" from Let It All Out, those were my in. There's a 4 CD box of all 7 Philips albums remastered that's on my list called Four Women.