Release Date: 13 May, 1997
Audio CD
Tracks
- Time and Love - Phoebe Snow
- Stoned Soul Picnic - Jill Sobule
- Buy and Sell - Suzanne Vega
- Save the Country - Rosanne Cash
- When I Think of Laura Nyro - Jane Siberry
- Stoney End - Beth Nielsen Chapman
- Eli's Comin' - Lisa Germano
- Wedding Bell Blues - The Roches
- And When I Die - Sweet Honey in the Rock
- Poverty Train - Patty Larkin
- He's a Runner - Jonatha Brooke
- Sweet Blindness - Holly Cole
- Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp - Leni Stern
- Woman's Blues - Dana Bryant
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Rating 3.0
Dirge music?I finally got to hear this tribute album to the wonderful music of Laura Nyro. This album has very little of the joy of Laura's music. Except for Honey Cole's version of Sweet Blindness, the whole album sounds like a funeral. Most of the artist's voices were just too small to do justice to the music. Overall this is a very depressing album. I was sorely disappointed.A very uneven work.Much like "Tribute" albums to great's like Curtis Mayfield and others, this album is uneven at best. This entire collaboration has a "rushed" feel to me. I dislike the fact that it's a woman's only album, secondly I think the fact that the average age of participants is so young is a serious mistake. Laura deserved an "all-star" tribute, not a [...]slap dab put together. A tribute album to Laura with no Patti Labelle, no Kenny Rankin, no members of the 5th Dimension, no Bonnie Raitt, no Carol King, no heavyweights? You gotta be kiddin' me!!!! Of the tracks listed I found three that I actually like. The version of "And When I Die" by Sweet Honey in the Rock is awe inspiring, as wonderfully different as it is faithful to the original. I also liked the renditions of "Save The Country" and "Stoney End". Other than that the album's a bust, nondescript cover's by unknowns. Sigh.... What could'a, should'a been. It grows on youShortly after Laura Nyro's death I bought this CD. I was deeply disappointed that her contemporaries weren't present, as I would have expected the likes of Ms. Streisand, Mitchell, Raitt, Ronstadt, etc. to step forward to remember this wonderful songwriter. Still, the artists on the CD have provided a great diversity of interpretations of Laura Nyro's better-know tunes. Sure there is some unevenness to the the disk. However, I've been impressed that the collection as a whole has really grown on me. I've had it for a few years now, and I enjoy it more and more. It lacks the emotional punch of Laura Nyro's renditions, but these articulations are soothing and enjoyable none-the-less. |
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