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Music : Christmas and the Beads of Sweat
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Christmas and the Beads of Sweat by: Laura Nyro |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886972441528 Format: Import Label: Sbme Special MKTS. Manufacturer: Sbme Special MKTS. Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sbme Special MKTS. Release Date: March 01, 2008 Studio: Sbme Special MKTS. Sales Rank: 17999 MPN: 724415 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - a almost lost treasureI bought the album as a LP many years ago,it's buried somewhere in my garage,thing is Iv'e never forgotten the thrill of hearing some of the tracks, they have stayed in my mind as very few others over the years,and I advise anyone who hasn't listened to Laura to please do so,I admit her voice takes some getting used to ,but it will grow on you..williet Rating: - The Artist Near Her PeakCHRISTMAS AND THE BEADS OF SWEAT was a critical disaster when it was released in 1970, and even as late as the 1990s ROLLING STONE critics described it as Laura Nyro's single worst recording. But the reassesment of her work that followed in the wake of Nyro's death has now placed the album as the equal of Nyro's earlier ELI & THE 13TH CONFESSION and NEW YORK TENDABERRY--something that Nyro fans could have told the critics all along. In some ways the difficulties in evaluating this recording are understandable. Nyro's ELI and TENDABERRY recordings have a uniquely timeless quality, and it would be difficult for a first-time listener to fix them at any particular year or even decade; SWEAT, however, is very distinctly rooted in the ... Read More: Rating: - One Of The Greatest Albums Never Heard?Cutting a decidedly esoteric figure amongst the plethora of singer songwriters to emerge in the late sixties,(something best exemplified by her being booed off stage by the tie-dye hippy audience at the legendary Monterey Music Festival in the summer of '67) Laura Nyro is still to achieve the critical and commercial following her talent so clearly deserves - something to which Christmas & The Beads of Sweat, her most wonderously ambitious album, bears clear testament. In contrast to the super sweet FM-radio friendly melodies of her Laurel Canyon folk-rock contemporaries (interestingly, compare her fragile version here of Carol King's Up on the roof), Nyro's filtering of elements of jazz, gospel and Broadway musical into the basic folk idiom, ... Read More: Rating: - a summer of love albumeverybody has their own set of autobiographical albums and this is one of mine.....the first notes of "brown earth" and i am back in that place when everything seemed simpler, less hurried a place where there was more time to just be and listen to that voice and that piano. many thanks Amazon for keeping that freeway open! |
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