Laura Nyro - The "Mother's Spiritual" album (1984)

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Laura Nyro - The "Mother's Spiritual" album (1984)

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I've always loved the sound and feel of this album! It's notable that this came out in 1984. At a time when most of the industry was trying to sound sleek and futuristic and electronic, Laura was still follwing her own voice--this sounds as if it could have come out in the early 70's.....

Laura Nyro - Piano, Keyboards, Vocals

John Bristow - Electric Guitar

Julie Lieberman -Violin

Terry Silverlight -Drums

Lisa Sunshine - Bass

Nydia "Liberty" Mata -Percussion

Todd Rundgren - Synthesizers, additional production

Jan Nigro - Acoustic Guitar

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Reply #1 posted 09/21/11 8:02pm

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Very underrated album by Ms.Nyro.

A few paragraphs from a commentary on the LN/TR connection:

That she is a noteworthy figure in his universe is not news; her music is the subject of the song “Baby Let’s Swing” on Runt, his first solo album.

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Both rejected stardom. She withdrew from the business in the mid-’70s and built a full life, returning occasionally to record or perform live in a hospitable venue. After her death from ovarian cancer in 1997, at 49 (her mother died of the same disease, at the same age), her family said that she “opted out of the music business because its crassness and commercialism increasingly and unbearably offended her artistic soul.” TR pissed off a legion of record company executives (and more than a few fans) by refusing to churn out the delicious pop candy that he could write with his eyes closed (As Paul Fishkin, president of Bearsville Records and a longtime associate, said, “This guy could shit hits.”)

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Unlike Dick Clark and Don Cornelius, Todd Rundgren and Laura Nyro are not the same person. They have been seen together, most notably when he produced her 1984 album “Mother’s Spiritual.” Among their notable differences: She seems to be very earnest, perhaps a little humorless. I didn’t know her, and maybe she was funnier than she seems, but damned if I can find a ghost of it in her work. For TR, on the other hand, humor is central. Those big waves of intense emotion are countered by a wryness that seems central to his being.

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Music for adventurous listeners

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