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- From: stegner_g@cubldr.colorado.edu
- Subject: Re: Laura Nyro
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:37:29 GMT
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- In article <BzJ2v1.no@eis.calstate.edu>, lcornel@eis.calstate.edu (Louis Cornelio) writes:
- > Just found this thread & wanted to join in: I love her music! It was a
- > thrill to get her last live album a after such a long time with no music.
- > Can't wait for the next one!
- >
- > Louis lcornel@eis.calstate.edu
-
- Yes, it's always a long time between albums with Laura, but that's because she:
- 1) is not into the music business or being a "star" that much, and 2) really
- labors over her work before deciding to release. MOTHER'S SPIRITUAL was
- written over a period of 5 years during which she was raising a baby, and
- recording took over a year. She's just picky about what goes out. Live
- albums, though, don't require quite as much fuss, and I think that's why she
- decided to put out the Bottom Line collection, so her fans would have something
- while she worked on the next studio album. There's quite a story behind that
- live album, though...
-
- Laura was doing studio work with the "Bottom Line" band in between gigs, and
- she had enough material down by early '89 to release an album. But she was
- dissatisfied with the results and told Columbia that she'd rather put out a
- live album. The PR folks at Columbia wouldn't hear of it. "You need a good
- studio album right now, Laura," they told her. They have her such a hard time
- that she decided to hawk the tapes out to another record company and release
- it. But Cypress, a company that has since gone belly-up, never really promoted
- the album either, so it commercially went nowhere (it didn't necessarily have
- to be "commercial" in the negative sense, but it could have sold a lot better).
- Columbia has been real good at just releasing her albums and not following up
- with promotion and support, too. A lot of people around her feel she needs to
- "get the word out" and get beyond "the cult" that is her current following.
- At least one person close to her feels that this upcoming album might just do
- the trick.
-
- The new album is just having the finishing touches put on. The current project
- has been going on for about a year (laying down new tracks), and one person who
- responded to this thread says Gary Katz (Steely Dan fame) is part of the
- production team. This one should be out about Spring '93 or maybe a little
- later. All of the above info, as is all my info, is gathered from people who
- either know Laura or get the inside scoop on her wherebouts. That would
- probably put me in her "outer circle" of acquaintances (I met her face to face
- on one occasion, backstage after a show, but that was it, except that I've
- communicated to her by letter on other occasions).
-
- Keep the thread alive!!
-
- Glen Stegner
- Keeper of the Chinese Lamp
- stegner_g@cubldr.colorado.edu
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