LAURA NYRO The First Songs SEALED LP 180 gram Audio Fidelity
$
25
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
LAURA NYRO The First Songs hails from 2011 and is a U.S. 12-track LP on 180 gram vinyl for Audio Fidelity, and comes housed SEALED and is numbered!
Laura Nyro had just turned 19 when she recorded this album in 1966. This debut is such a mature piece of work, glistening with alluring pop melodies and fashionable '60s arrangements, yet so fresh and gorgeous it sounds as beautiful, sophisticated and modern as it did nearly 45 years ago. The bare-bones simplicity of her singing is disciplined, careful, and exquisite and on track after track she delivers a performance equal with any of the top female pop singers of the day - her singing is riveting and unforgettable.
Laura Nyro was a genius songwriter and musician, and the album features the majority of her most famous and revered compositions and her own interpretation of several pieces that would be hits for other artists - Blood Sweat and Tears - "And When I Die" (US #2), The 5th Dimension - "Wedding Bell Blues" (US #1) and "Blowin' Away" (US #21), and Barbra Streisand - "Stoney End" (US #6).
On this album, Nyro shows off her awesome talent, a potent and diverse mix of folk rock, jazzy cabaret stylings, blues, r & b, gospel and pure, delicious girl-group pop, to which she adds a lyrical intelligence not to be found elsewhere - Nyro knows each of theses genres as if she'd been performing in them for decades. It's just breathtaking how it all effortlessly tumbles forth.
She began so young and was lost to the world before her time. She is one of the most overlooked and greatest of the female "confessional, "poetic" and hit making songwriter/singers of that generation. She belongs up there among the best, with Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, Roberta Flack and Rickie Lee Jones.
SIDE ONE
1. Wedding bell blues
2. Billy's blues
3. California shoeshine boys
4. Blowing away
5. Lazy susan
6. Good by joe
SIDE TWO
1. Flim flam man
2. Stoney end
3. I never meant to hurt you
4. He's a runner
5. Buy and sell
6. And when I die
price rating
