Loved Laura since college in the late 60s. L.N. either makes your skin kinda crawl at first, she's so RAW or you dive right in. I introduced my sister to her with New York Tendaberry album. I warned her - you have to just let it loose and go with it when she blows like a whale. I gave her Billy Childs' brilliant collaboration with Joni's ex husband Larry Klein called "Re-imagining Laura Nyro" with Yoyo Ma, Ricky Lee Jones, Alison Krauss, which is a MUST for Nyro lovers. Find this album and swoon!
New York Tendaberry is to me a concept album... she just sat down at the piano and banged out some tunes, making up words as she went along, not worrying about meaning so much, as in a dream. Colors and textures and depth and mystical-ness. My fav. Nyro song if I had to choose one is Gibsom Street. It's so DARK yet has a golden edged horizon to it. 'The devil is hungry the devil is sweet, they hang the alley cats on Gibsom Street.' I mean, who does that? Who writes lyrics like that? The melody is so haunting the way it lurches around in the dark. Susan Tedeschi does a goosebump version on Billy Childs' album... imagine Laura done a-la Court and Spark production and backgrounds. The tension that is built up in this song is palatable... all my sorrows all my loving... goosebumps!!!
Captain St. Lucifer is a stream-of-consciousness jumble of words that takes you for an uncomfortable ride. Gutters in stacks could just as easily be gutters in sacks or flutters in packs for all we know - or care. For some unknown reason we need mama's blessing to unlock the door to receive Buckles off shingles, Off a cockleshell on norway basin. We're in Norway and Russia and... a jangle from a congo love chase, early bloomers made of earth and love lace.
I don't know what she was smoking or who made the moonshine she was sip-sipping but back in those days the mojo was thick with magic goo and forget-me-nots!
Loved Laura since college in the late 60s. L.N. either makes your skin kinda crawl at first, she's so RAW or you dive right in. I introduced my sister to her with New York Tendaberry album. I warned her - you have to just let it loose and go with it when she blows like a whale. I gave her Billy Childs' brilliant collaboration with Joni's ex husband Larry Klein called "Re-imagining Laura Nyro" with Yoyo Ma, Ricky Lee Jones, Alison Krauss, which is a MUST for Nyro lovers. Find this album and swoon!
New York Tendaberry is to me a concept album... she just sat down at the piano and banged out some tunes, making up words as she went along, not worrying about meaning so much, as in a dream. Colors and textures and depth and mystical-ness. My fav. Nyro song if I had to choose one is Gibsom Street. It's so DARK yet has a golden edged horizon to it. 'The devil is hungry the devil is sweet, they hang the alley cats on Gibsom Street.' I mean, who does that? Who writes lyrics like that? The melody is so haunting the way it lurches around in the dark. Susan Tedeschi does a goosebump version on Billy Childs' album... imagine Laura done a-la Court and Spark production and backgrounds. The tension that is built up in this song is palatable... all my sorrows all my loving... goosebumps!!!
Captain St. Lucifer is a stream-of-consciousness jumble of words that takes you for an uncomfortable ride. Gutters in stacks could just as easily be gutters in sacks or flutters in packs for all we know - or care. For some unknown reason we need mama's blessing to unlock the door to receive Buckles off shingles, Off a cockleshell on norway basin. We're in Norway and Russia and... a jangle from a congo love chase, early bloomers made of earth and love lace.
I don't know what she was smoking or who made the moonshine she was sip-sipping but back in those days the mojo was thick with magic goo and forget-me-nots!