Nature Boy naked and later in a bathtub scene. The song is performed at a jazz club in the film "Angel Eyes", (2001). A version recorded by Jon Hassell on trumpet and Ronu Majumdar on flute is featured on the soundtrack. The writing of "Nature Boy" was the theme of a 2000 Canadian TV film of the same title, directed by Kari Skogland. Callum Keith Rennie played ahbez, writing the song for Cole, played by Terence Carson, after falling in love with a woman named Anna Jacobs, portrayed by Tanya Allen. The song was a central theme in Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge!" "Nature
Take Me to the River Rev Al Green, writer of this song. Eva Cassidy performed the song live at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C. venue on January 1996, later included in her live album, released before her death that same year. The Italian bluesman Zucchero Fornaciari sampled part of the melody for realizing his song "Baila" in the album "Shake" of 2001. Phish performed the song three times in concert tours. The band performed it as a soundcheck track for the State Theatre concert in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 9, 1993. The band re-performed it twice onstage, both incomplete: one as a medley with another