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**StincPriene** · 06-27-2010, 04:44 AM

those albums are never far from my record player. i also greatly enjoy smile and angel in the dark (though inferior albums to the aforementioned "big 3").

laura's influence can't be stressed enough for the impact it made on the great many singer-songwriters that came after her. the female singer-songwriter genre can pretty much draw direct lineage to laura nyro and joni mitchell. case closed!

Well said. It's true. Laura Nyro was a major door-opener. Joni has said that she took up piano again because of New York Tendaberry.

My fave post-Christmas one is probably Nested but I do like Smile a lot. It's tragic she died so young. She died aged 49 of ovarian cancer; her mother before her died aged 49 of ovarian cancer, and her partner Maria died two years later, aged 47, also of ovarian cancer.

Apparently there's a documentary in the works. I hope it gets completed, there's not a lot of footage or anything out there to my knowledge.

06-27-2010, 04:44 AM	#3
StincPriene Join Date Dec 2005 Posts 460 Senior Member	those albums are never far from my record player. i also greatly enjoy smile and angel in the dark (though inferior albums to the aforementioned "big 3"). laura's influence can't be stressed enough for the impact it made on the great many singer-songwriters that came after her. the female singer-songwriter genre can pretty much draw direct lineage to laura nyro and joni mitchell. case closed! Well said. It's true. Laura Nyro was a major door-opener. Joni has said that she took up piano again because of New York Tendaberry. My fave post-Christmas one is probably Nested but I do like Smile a lot. It's tragic she died so young. She died aged 49 of ovarian cancer; her mother before her died aged 49 of ovarian cancer, and her partner Maria died two years later, aged 47, also of ovarian cancer. Apparently there's a documentary in the works. I hope it gets completed, there's not a lot of footage or anything out there to my knowledge.
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