On this day on 8 April 1997
The pioneering American singer-songwriter Laura Nyro succumbed to ovarian cancer at the age of 49.
Read about her career in Laura Nyro On Track, available from @burningshed or wherever you buy your books
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In 2024, Uncut Magazine published a compendium of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. We continue the countdown at 215 with New York Tendaberry by Laura Nyro.
Read about it in Laura Nyro On Track, available from @burningshed or wherever you buy your books
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Released in 1969 on the heels of Eli & The Thirteenth Confession, self produced w/ Engineer Roy Halee is Laura Nyro’s “New York Tendaberry”.
She asked Miles Davis to play on it, his response “I can’t play on this record. It’s already perfect”. Indeed he was right.
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