Christmas and the Beads of Sweat is my suggestion.
Happy listening...
Heather
At 12:45 AM 7/21/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have been interested in Laura Nyro, knowing that she's a contemporary for
>Joni Mitchell and that Joni has spoken highly of her, especially of New York
>Tendaberry. Well I was browsing on Amazon and I come across the page for
>Tendaberry. I see the song title CFDM and I'm thinking, oh this sounds like
>a Joni title. So I listen to the sample and it sounds intriguing and
>haunting. I then go to audiogalaxy.com and download the song. OH MY
>GOD!!!!! This song is soo gooood!!!!! And then I scan the article page at
>jmdl.com where I come upon a child of god-jk- but seriously a transcript of a
>radio show Joni did in England in 1983. She brings with her 12 songs she
>likes and they are played and commenting on them. Well what do I find but
>this:
>
>
>AP: The next choice is from Laura Nyro, desperately underplayed on the radio
>in this country. Really is.
>JM: Another great artist.
>AP: But why great to you? What is it that particularly appeals about her
>work?
>JM: Well, when I was first starting out, there weren't that many women that
>were writing, and I was pitted in the press in various combinations. You
>know, they try to put you into groups and schools, like to put you in some
>kind of neat filing system. Of all of the filing systems that I went into,
>she was one of the rare ones whose company I enjoyed. She's a great artist,
>you know, a complete original. You see a lot of her influence coming down now
>through the pop charts. Rickie Lee Jones has borrowed a lot from her, but
>somehow or other the way she put it together was all her own.
>AP: And this is "Captain for a Dark Morning."
>(Plays "Captain for a Dark Morning.")
>AP: The haunting voice of Laura Nyro. She really is a superb vocalist, isn't
>she?
>JM: Oh, yeah. She's got so much dynamic range and sense of theatre and
>composition. She's a great one.
>
>Let's just say I have sooo much more respect for Joni now. Conceding that
>she is not the queen of all female singer-songwriters!!!
>
>I'm going to get Tendaberry as soon as I can. What of Nyro's should I get
>after that?
