Eli & The 13th Confession
Laura Nyro
Engineer: Stan Tonkel, Roy Segal,
Producer: Charlie Calello, Laura Nyro
Legacy Recordings, 2002
1 CD
Catalogue #: 85763
EAN: 0696998576322
UPC: 696998576322
You save: 20%
Personnel includes: Laura Nyro (vocals, piano); Charlie Calello (arranger, conductor).
Recorded in January & February 1968. Bonus track demos recorded on November 29, 1967.
Includes liner notes by Rick Petreycik.
Widely regarded as one of the finest moments in a stellar recording career, ELI & THE THIRTEENTH CONFESSION was a bold, original amalgam of jazz, soul, folk, and rock. Nyro's freewheeling, open-ended arrangements were brought into sharp focus by her clear, gospel-derived singing and incisive, poetic lyrics. There is a strong spiritual undercurrent at work here, investing even the darker songs with a timeless, celebratory feel. A testament to Nyro's songwriting abilities, ELI contained several songs that became hits for other artists, including "Stoned Soul Picnic" and "Eli's Comin," popularized by the Fifth Dimension and Three Dog Night, respectively.
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Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro was one of the true innovators of 1960s pop, an influential singer-songwriter who merged jazz, gospel, R&B, and girl-group sounds and created an oeuvre that was both highly sophisticated and instantly accessible. Although she wrote several classic and somewhat straight-ahead songs for others in the `60s and `70s ("And When I Die" for Blood, Sweat & Tears and "Stoney End" for Barbra Steisand, among many others), her solo work was notable for its eccentricity, with unusual lyrics, shifting time signatures, and a deeply confessional nature. After her initial prolificacy, Nyro recorded only sporadically through the `80s and `90s, and passed away in 1997.
