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Homespun brings you the brilliance of Laura Nyro - captured live, raw, and radiantly in her prime. Live 1970 & 1971 opens a rare window into one of the most gifted and enigmatic singer-songwriters of her generation. At a time when her songs were lighting up the charts for artists like The 5th Dimension, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Barbra Streisand, Laura Nyro was quietly redefining the art of live performance - intimate, passionate, and utterly fearless.
We bring you two live radio broadcasts that preserve Nyro at her most spellbinding: alone at the piano, her voice rising and falling like a storm of soul, jazz, and poetry. First up is the WNEW-FM broadcast live from the Fillmore East, followed by the KJHK-FM broadcast from the Hoch Auditorium in Kansas. From the aching beauty of "Captain For Dark Mornings" and "And When I Die" to the spiritual fire of "Save the Country," each performance radiates warmth, vulnerability, and that unmistakable Nyro magic.
Here, stripped of studio gloss, you hear the essence of her genius--her phrasing playful yet profound, her melodies soaring on instinct and emotion. The air crackles with intimacy; it feels as if she's singing just for you, late at night, across the radio waves.
Tracklist
Disc: 1
1 He's A Runner
2 Brown Earth
3 When I Was Freeport and You Were The Main Drag
4 Poem
5 Christmas In My Soul
6 Poverty Train
7 Emmie
8 Gibson
9 Captain For Dark Mornings / Treasure of Love
10 Up On The Roof
11 And When I Die
12 Time and Love / Save The Country
13 Walk On By
14 It's Gonna Take A Miracle
15 California Shoeshine Boys / Tom Dooley interview
16 Timer Tom Dooley interview
Disc: 2
1 Stoned Soul Picnic
2 Brown Earth
3 Buy and Sell
4 Gypsy Woman
5 And When I Die
6 Medley: Tom Dooley / Kansas City / California Shoeshine Boys
7 Stoney End
8 Map to the Treasure
9 Christmas in My Soul
10 Save the Country
11 Timer
12 Ooh Child
13 Up on the Roof
14 Mother Earth