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Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best Of Laura Nyro (CD)

By: Laura Nyro (Artist)

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Laura Nyro Artist Snapshot:

Laura Nyro was one of the true innovators of 1960s pop, an influential singer-songwriter who merged jazz, gospel, R&B, and girl-group sounds and created an oeuvre that was both highly sophisticated and instantly accessible. Although she wrote several classic and somewhat straight-ahead songs for others in the `60s and `70s ("And When I Die" for Blood, Sweat & Tears and "Stoney End" for Barbra Steisand, among many others), her solo work was notable for its eccentricity, with unusual lyrics, shifting time signatures, and a deeply confessional nature. After her initial prolificacy, Nyro recorded only sporadically through the `80s and `90s, and passed away in 1997.

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DISC 1 for Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best Of Laura Nyro (CD) Album By Laura Nyro (Artist)
1   Wedding Bell Blues
2   Blowin' Away
3   Billy's Blues
4   Stoney End
5   And When I Die
6   Lu
7   Eli's Comin'
8   Stoned Soul Picnic
9   Timer
10   Emmie
11   Confession, The
12   Capt. St. Lucifer
13   Gibsom Street
14   New York Tendaberry
15   Save The Country - (single version)
16   Blackpatch
17   Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp
18   Beads Of Sweat
19   When I Was A Freeport And You Were The Main Drag
 
DISC 2 for Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best Of Laura Nyro (CD) Album By Laura Nyro (Artist)
1   I Met Him On A Sunday
2   Bells, The
3   Smile
4   Sweet Blindness - (live)
5   Money - (live)
6   Mr. Blue
7   Wilderness, A
8   Mother's Spiritual
9   Woman Of The World, A
10   Louise's Church
11   Broken Rainbow
12   To A Child
13   Lite A Flame (The Animal Rights Song)
14   And When I Die - (previously unreleased, live)
15   Save The Country - (previously unreleased, live)
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (3/21/97, p.74) - "Fans of today's visionary female popsters would profit from a good listen to Nyro, the shamefully overlooked singer-songwriter who paved the way for them 30 years ago. Nyro's passion still cuts like a glistening blade on this well-stocked two-CD set..."
- Rating: A

Title Note

Personnel includes: Laura Nyro (vocals, guitar, piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, keyboards); LaBelle (vocals); Jay Berliner, John Tropea, Jeff Mironov, Roland Chambers, Norman Harris, Elliot Randall, Hugh McCracken, Cornell Dupree, Tommy Tedesco (guitar); Alice Coltrane (harp); Joe Farrell, George Young (flute, saxophone); Buddy Lucas (harmonica); Bernie Glow, Pat Calello (trumpets); Wayne Andre, Jimmy Cleveland, Ray DeSio (trombone); Felix Cavaliere (organ, bells); Todd Rundgren (synthesizer); David Friedman, Mike Mainiere (vibraphone); Chuck Rainey, Freddie Washington, Richard Davis, Cyril Cianflone (bass); Dino Danelli, Andy Newmark, Hal Blaine, Bernard Purdie, Rick Marotta (drums); Carter "C.C." Collins (conga, percussion).

Producers: Milt Okun, Charlie Calello, Laura Nyro, Roy Halee, Bones Howe, Arif Mardin, Felix Cavaliere, Gamble and Huff, Roscoe Harring, Gary Katz.

Compilation producer: Dan Loggins.

Engineers include: Dale Ashby, Wayne Yurgelun.

Recorded between 1966 and 1994. Includes liner notes by Paul Zollo.

Though she was an innovator in '60s pop-rock on a par with Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro's place in the history books is not as secure as those of her peers. Whether this is due to her markedly reduced output after her late-'60s/early-'70s heyday, the inconsistency of her later releases or some indefinable sociological phenomenon is hard to say. What this two-CD career retrospective does prove beyond a shadow of a doubt is that Nyro was a true original. She merged jazz, gospel, R&B and girl-group pop to create an unprecedented form that was both sonically rich and instantly accessible.

STONED SOUL PICNIC features Nyro's broad, poetic vision on great early songs like "Gibsom Street" and "New York Tendaberry" as well as on cuts best known through other singers' versions ("And When I Die," "Stoney End," etc.). What emerges over the course of these two discs is the highly-developed aesthetic sensibility of an artist who not only understood the sources of her inspiration, but had enough of a vision to assimilate those sources and take them someplace new.

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