Pour une Âme Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone

Pour une Âme Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone
Studio album by Meshell Ndegeocello
Released	16 October 2012
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	53:37
Label	Naïve
Meshell Ndegeocello chronology
Weather (2011) Pour une Âme Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone (2011) Comet, Come to Me (2014)

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Pour une Âme Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone is the 10th studio album by American singer Meshell Ndegeocello, released in October 2012 on Naïve label.

Track listing

1. "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Benjamin Bennie Claude, Gloria Caldwell, Marcus Sol) – 4:08
2. "Suzanne" (Leonard Cohen) – 4:27
3. "Real Real" (Nina Simone) – 3:08
4. "House of the Rising Sun" (Josh White, Holmes Libby Reynolds) – 3:36
5. "Turn Me On" (John D Loudermilk) – 3:08
6. "Feeling Good" (Anthony George Newley, Leslie Bricusse) – 4:10
7. "Don't Take All Night" (Benjamin Bennie Claude, Marcus Sol) – 3:28
8. "Nobody's Fault But Mine" (Nina Simone) – 2:37
9. "Be My Husband" (Andrew Benjamin Stroud) – 3:31
10. "Black Is the Color of My True Loves Hair" – 3:53
11. "See Line Woman" (George Bass, Nina Simone) – 5:51
12. "Either Way I Lose" (Van Allen Mc Coy) – 3:29
13. "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" (Nina Simone) – 3:16
14. "Four Women" (Nina Simone) – 5:02

Personnel

• Meshell Ndegeocello – bass
• Chris Bruce – guitar
• Jebin Bruni – keyboards, piano
• Deantoni Parks – drums
• Toshi Reagon – vocals on "Real Real" and "House of the Rising Sun"
• Sinéad O'Connor – vocals on "Don't Take All Night"
• Lizz Wright – vocals on "Nobody's Fault But Mine"
• Valerie June – vocals on "Be My Husband"
• Tracy Wannomae – soprano saxophone and flute on "To Be Young, Gifted and Black"
• Eric Elterman – engineer
• Pete Min – engineer, mixing, mastering
• Hilton Als – liner notes
• Charlie Gross – photpgraphy

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