Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1:
1. Wedding Bell Blues
2. Blowin' Away
3. Billy's Blues
4. Stoney End
5. And When I Die
6. Lu
7. Eli's Comin'
8. Stoned Soul Picnic
9. Timer
10. Emmie
11. Confession, The
12. Capt. St. Lucifer
13. Gibsom Street
14. New York Tendaberry
15. Save the Country - (single version)
16. Blackpatch
17. Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp
18. Beads of Sweat
19. When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag
DISC 2:
1. I Met Him on a Sunday
2. Bells, The
3. Smile
4. Sweet Blindness
5. Money
6. Mr. Blue
7. Wilderness, A
8. Mother's Spiritual
9. Woman of the World, A
10. Louise's Church
11. Broken Rainbow
12. To a Child
13. Lite a Flame (The Animal Rights Song)
14. And When I Die - (previously unreleased)
15. Save the Country - (previously unreleased)
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Alice Coltrane, Dino Danelli, Felix Cavaliere, Joe Farrell, LaBelle, Labelle, Mike Mainieri, Richard Davis, Todd Rundgren | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording type: | Mixed | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel includes: Laura Nyro (vocals, guitar, piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, keyboards); LaBelle (vocals); Jay Berliner, John Tropea, Jeff Mironov, Roland Chambers, Norman Harris, Elliot Randall, Hugh McCracken, Cornell Dupree, Tommy Tedesco (guitar); Alice Coltrane (harp); Joe Farrell, George Young (flute, saxophone); Buddy Lucas (harmonica); Bernie Glow, Pat Calello (trumpets); Wayne Andre, Jimmy Cleveland, Ray DeSio (trombone); Felix Cavaliere (organ, bells); Todd Rundgren (synthesizer); David Friedman, Mike Mainiere (vibraphone); Chuck Rainey, Freddie Washington, Richard Davis, Cyril Cianflone (bass); Dino Danelli, Andy Newmark, Hal Blaine, Bernard Purdie, Rick Marotta (drums); Carter "C.C." Collins (conga, percussion).
Producers: Milt Okun, Charlie Calello, Laura Nyro, Roy Halee, Bones Howe, Arif Mardin, Felix Cavaliere, Gamble and Huff, Roscoe Harring, Gary Katz.
Compilation producer: Dan Loggins.
Engineers include: Dale Ashby, Wayne Yurgelun.
Recorded between 1966 and 1994. Includes liner notes by Paul Zollo.
Though she was an innovator in '60s pop-rock on a par with Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro's place in the history books is not as secure as those of her peers. Whether this is due to her markedly reduced output after her late-'60s/early-'70s heyday, the inconsistency of her later releases or some indefinable sociological phenomenon is hard to say. What this two-CD career retrospective does prove beyond a shadow of a doubt is that Nyro was a true original. She merged jazz, gospel, R&B and girl-group pop to create an unprecedented form that was both sonically rich and instantly accessible.
STONED SOUL PICNIC features Nyro's broad, poetic vision on great early songs like "Gibsom Street" and "New York Tendaberry" as well as on cuts best known through other singers' versions ("And When I Die," "Stoney End," etc.). What emerges over the course of these two discs is the highly-developed aesthetic sensibility of an artist who not only understood the sources of her inspiration, but had enough of a vision to assimilate those sources and take them someplace new.
| | Editorial reviews | Fans of today's visionary female popsters would profit from a good listen to Nyro, the shamefully overlooked singer-songwriter who paved the way for them 30 years ago. Nyro's passion still cuts like a glistening blade on this well-stocked two-CD set... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (03/21/1997)
Fans of today's visionary female popsters would profit from a good listen to Nyro, the shamefully overlooked singer-songwriter who paved the way for them 30 years ago. Nyro's passion still cuts like a glistening blade on this well-stocked two-CD set...
Entertainment Weekly (03/21/1997)
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