Sinner Man, the Glossary
"Sinner Man" or "Sinnerman" is an African American traditional spiritual song that has been recorded by a number of performers and has been incorporated in many other media and arts.[1]
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90 relations: Abd al Malik (rapper), African Americans, Alexis Arquette, Alice Smith, AllMusic, Atlantic Records, Béatrice Bonifassi, Bob Gibson (musician), Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bunny Wailer, Capitol Records, Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975, Celeste (singer), Cirque du Soleil, Colpix Records, Cover version, Crystal (Cirque du Soleil), David Lynch, Dub music, Equal Rights (album), Felix da Housecat, Folk music, Folklore (16 Horsepower album), Get By, Goldfinger (band), Gospel music, Greenwich Village, Guy Carawan, Hal Mooney, His Name Is Alive, Hozier, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Inland Empire (film), Ireland, Iyaric, Jazz, Julius Cheeks, Kanye West, Kingston, Jamaica, Last Judgment, Les Baxter, Life on Mars (British TV series), Lovecraft Country (TV series), Lucifer (TV series), Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, Methodism, Nice Day, Nina at the Village Gate, Nina Cried Power, Nina Simone, ... Expand index (40 more) »
- Peter Tosh songs
- Three Dog Night songs
- Trini Lopez songs
Abd al Malik (rapper)
Abd al Malik, born Régis Fayette-Mikano is a French rapper and spoken word artist of Congolese origin.
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African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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Alexis Arquette
Alexis Arquette (July 28, 1969 – September 11, 2016) was an American actress and transgender activist.
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Alice Smith
Alice Smith (born November 30, 1977) is an American singer and songwriter, her style anchored in rock, R&B, blues, jazz and soul.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.
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Béatrice Bonifassi
Béatrice "Betty" Bonifassi (born 1971) is a Canadian vocalist based in Montreal.
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Bob Gibson (musician)
Samuel Robert Gibson (November 16, 1931 – September 28, 1996) was an American folk singer and a key figure in the folk music revival in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Bob Marley and the Wailers
Bob Marley and the Wailers (previously known as the Wailers and prior to that the Wailing Rudeboys, the Wailing Wailers and the Teenagers) were a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae band.
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Bunny Wailer
Neville O'Riley Livingston (10 April 1947 – 2 March 2021), known professionally as Bunny Wailer, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and percussionist.
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Capitol Records
Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.
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Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975
Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965–1975 is a two-CD anthology of Three Dog Night recordings released in 1993 which includes some pre-3DN material from co-lead singers Danny Hutton and Cory Wells (none from Chuck Negron), as well as an unreleased track "Time to Get Alone", penned and produced by Brian Wilson from the band's brief "Redwood" incarnation.
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Celeste (singer)
Celeste Epiphany Waite (born 5 May 1994) is a British singer and songwriter.
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Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil ("Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world.
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Colpix Records
Colpix Records was the first recording company for Columbia Pictures–Screen Gems.
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Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.
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Crystal (Cirque du Soleil)
Crystal is an arena touring show by Cirque du Soleil that started previewing to the public in October 2017, with an official premiere in December 2017.
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David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, visual artist, and musician.
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Dub music
Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Equal Rights (album)
Equal Rights is the second studio album by Peter Tosh.
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Felix da Housecat
Felix da Housecat (born Felix Stallings Jr., August 25, 1971) is an American DJ and record producer, mostly known for house music and electro.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Folklore (16 Horsepower album)
Folklore is the fourth and final studio album by 16 Horsepower, released in 2002.
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Get By
"Get By" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Talib Kweli.
Goldfinger (band)
Goldfinger is an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1994.
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
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Guy Carawan
Guy Hughes Carawan Jr. (July 28, 1927 – May 2, 2015) was an American folk musician and musicologist.
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Hal Mooney
Hal Mooney, born Harold Mooney (February 4, 1911 – March 23, 1995), was an American composer and arranger.
His Name Is Alive
His Name Is Alive is an American experimental rock band/project from Livonia, Michigan.
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Hozier
Andrew John Hozier-Byrne (born 17 March 1990), known professionally as Hozier, is an Irish musician, singer and songwriter.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a 2016 New Zealand adventure comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, whose screenplay was based on the book Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump.
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Inland Empire (film)
Inland Empire is a 2006 experimental psychological thriller film written, directed and co-produced by David Lynch.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Iyaric
Iyaric, also called Dread Talk or Rasta Talk, is a form of language constructed by members of the Rastafari movement through alteration of vocabulary.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Julius Cheeks
Rev.
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Kanye West
Ye (born Kanye Omari West; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.
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Last Judgment
The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (translit or label) is a concept found across the Abrahamic religions and the Frashokereti of Zoroastrianism.
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Les Baxter
Leslie Thompson Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician, composer and conductor.
Life on Mars (British TV series)
Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between 9 January 2006 and 10 April 2007.
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Lovecraft Country (TV series)
Lovecraft Country is an American horror drama television series developed by Misha Green based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff.
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Lucifer (TV series)
Lucifer is an American urban fantasy television series developed by Tom Kapinos that began airing on January 25, 2016, and concluded on September 10, 2021.
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Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure is a video game released in February 2006 for PlayStation 2, Windows, and Xbox.
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Methodism
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.
Nice Day
Nice Day is an EP by His Name Is Alive, released by 4AD in the UK in 1997.
Nina at the Village Gate
Nina Simone at the Village Gate is a live album by singer Nina Simone.
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Nina Cried Power
"Nina Cried Power" is a song recorded by Irish singer-songwriter Hozier, featuring vocals from American rhythm and blues and gospel singer Mavis Staples.
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Nina Simone
Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, composer, arranger and civil rights activist.
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Pastel Blues
Pastel Blues is a studio album by American singer Nina Simone, released in October 1st, 1965, by Philips Records.
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Peacock Records
Peacock Records was an American record label, founded in 1949 by Don Robey in Houston, Texas, United States.
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Peter Tosh
Winston Hubert McIntosh, OM (19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987), professionally known as Peter Tosh, was a Jamaican reggae musician.
Philips Records
Philips Records is a record label founded by Dutch electronics company Philips and Dutch-American music corporation Universal Music Group.
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Polk Miller
Polk Miller (August 2, 1844 – October 20, 1913) was a musician and entertainer from Richmond and Bon Air, Virginia.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
Revival meeting
A revival meeting is a series of Christian religious services held to inspire active members of a church body to gain new converts and to call sinners to repent.
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Sampling (music)
In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.
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Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs (stylized as) is an American medical sitcom created by Bill Lawrence that aired from October 2, 2001, to March 17, 2010, on NBC and later ABC.
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Sensational Nightingales
The Sensational Nightingales are a traditional black gospel quartet that reached its peak of popularity in the 1950s, when it featured Julius Cheeks as its lead singer.
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Sherlock (TV series)
Sherlock is a British mystery crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories.
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Shock Value (Timbaland album)
Shock Value is the second solo studio album by record producer Timbaland.
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Sinéad O'Connor
Shuhada' Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor; 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023) was an Irish singer, songwriter, and activist.
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Ska
Ska (skia) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
Sofi Tukker
Sofi Tukker (stylized in all caps) is a musical duo based in Florida consisting of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern.
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Spirituals
Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for centuries afterwards, through the domestic slave trade.
Stop This Flame
"Stop This Flame" is a song by British singer and songwriter Celeste.
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Studio One (record label)
Studio One is one of Jamaica's most renowned record labels and recording studios; it has been described as the Motown of Jamaica.
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Sunday (The Gospel According to Iso)
Sunday (The Gospel According to Iso) is the sixth studio album by Australian vocal duo Vika and Linda Bull and was released on 11 September 2020.
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Swan Silvertones
The Swan Silvertones are an American gospel music group that first achieved popularity in the 1940s and 1950s under the leadership of Claude Jeter.
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Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli Greene (born October 3, 1975) is an American rapper.
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The Chestnut Man
The Chestnut Man (Danish: Kastanjemanden) is a Danish crime series released on Netflix on 29 September 2021.
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The Righteous Gemstones
The Righteous Gemstones is an American crime comedy drama television series created by Danny McBride that premiered on August 18, 2019, on HBO.
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 film)
The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1999 American romantic heist film directed by John McTiernan and written by Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer.
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The Umbrella Academy (TV series)
The Umbrella Academy is an American superhero television series based on the comic book series of the same name written by Gerard Way, illustrated by Gabriel Bá, and published by Dark Horse Comics.
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The Weavers
The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman.
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Three Dog Night
Three Dog Night is an American rock band formed in 1967, founded by vocalists Chuck Negron, Cory Wells, and Danny Hutton.
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Throw Down Your Arms
Throw Down Your Arms is the seventh studio album by Sinéad O'Connor, also known as her reggae album.
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Timbaland
Timothy Zachery Mosley (born March 10, 1972), known professionally as Timbaland, is an American record producer, rapper, and singer.
Traditional black gospel
Traditional black gospel is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding African American Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.
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Tuff Gong
Tuff Gong is the brand name associated with a number of businesses started by Bob Marley and the Marley family.
Vee-Jay Records
Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
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Verve Remixed
Verve Remixed is a series of albums released by Verve Records centered on the concept of classic Verve tracks, remixed by contemporary electronic music producers and DJs.
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Vika and Linda
Vika and Linda, also known as Vika and Linda Bull, are an Australian vocal duo consisting of Vika Susan Bull (born 1966) and her younger sister, Linda Rose Bull.
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Village Gate
The Village Gate was a nightclub at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Streets in Greenwich Village, New York.
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Will Holt
Will Holt (April 30, 1929 – May 31, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter, librettist and lyricist.
William Clauson
William Clauson (May 2, 1930 – September 3, 2017) was a Swedish-American singer of folk songs from various nations, including some of the songs of Carl Michael Bellman in both English and Swedish.
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16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower was an American country rock band based in Denver, Colorado, United States.
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See also
Peter Tosh songs
- Get Up, Stand Up
- No Sympathy
- Sinner Man
Three Dog Night songs
- An Old Fashioned Love Song
- Black and White (Pete Seeger song)
- Celebrate (Three Dog Night song)
- Chest Fever
- Don't Make Promises
- Easy to Be Hard
- Eli's Comin'
- Everybody's a Masterpiece
- Feelin' Alright?
- It's for You
- Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)
- Lady Samantha
- Let Me Serenade You
- Liar (Russ Ballard song)
- Mama Told Me Not to Come
- Never Been to Spain
- Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
- One (Harry Nilsson song)
- One Man Band (Three Dog Night song)
- Out in the Country
- Pieces of April (song)
- Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)
- Shambala (song)
- Sinner Man
- Sure As I'm Sittin' Here
- The Family of Man (Three Dog Night song)
- The Loner (Neil Young song)
- The Show Must Go On (Leo Sayer song)
- Til the World Ends (Three Dog Night song)
- Try a Little Tenderness
- You (Marvin Gaye song)
- You Can Leave Your Hat On
- Your Song
Trini Lopez songs
- America (West Side Story song)
- Call Me (Petula Clark song)
- Cielito Lindo
- Cotton Fields
- Crazy Arms
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Four Strong Winds
- Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now
- Good Old Mountain Dew
- Gotta Travel On
- Green, Green (song)
- Green, Green Grass of Home
- Guantanamera
- Heart of My Heart
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- If I Had a Hammer
- Kansas City (Leiber and Stoller song)
- Laura (1945 song)
- Lemon Tree (Will Holt song)
- Lonesome Traveller
- Marianne (Terry Gilkyson song)
- Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
- My Melancholy Baby
- Ooh Poo Pah Doo
- Our Day Will Come
- Sha La Boom Boom
- Side by Side (1927 song)
- Sinner Man
- Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like
- Spanish Harlem (song)
- Sunshine Superman (song)
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- This Land Is Your Land
- This Little Girl of Mine
- Unchain My Heart (song)
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- Ya Ya
- You'll Never Know
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinner_Man
Also known as Downpresser Man, Downpressor Man, Oh Sinnerman, Sinnerman, Sinnerman (Nina Simone song).
, Pastel Blues, Peacock Records, Peter Tosh, Philips Records, Polk Miller, Pop music, Punk rock, Reggae, Revival meeting, Sampling (music), Scrubs (TV series), Sensational Nightingales, Sherlock (TV series), Shock Value (Timbaland album), Sinéad O'Connor, Ska, Sofi Tukker, Spirituals, Stop This Flame, Studio One (record label), Sunday (The Gospel According to Iso), Swan Silvertones, Talib Kweli, The Chestnut Man, The Righteous Gemstones, The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 film), The Umbrella Academy (TV series), The Weavers, Three Dog Night, Throw Down Your Arms, Timbaland, Traditional black gospel, Tuff Gong, Vee-Jay Records, Verve Remixed, Vika and Linda, Village Gate, Will Holt, William Clauson, 16 Horsepower.