LAURA NYRO Eli And The Thirteenth Confession 1968 FIRST PRESS 1A/1A PROMO LP
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LAURA NYRO "Eli And The Thirteenth Confession" 1968 FIRST PRESS 1A/1A PROMO LP! Hard to find Columbia (CS-9626) stereo promo 1st press with Deadwax Matrix Numbers 1A/1A on both sides and Radio Timing Strip on front of this classic album by Laura Nyro. Cover is VG with some ring wear on both sides, a small piece of masking tape on top left front with a number written on it and tiny dents/scuffs on corners. Vinyl is in M- condition with a few light paper scuffs and NO scratches and NO spindle marks on labels...looks unplayed! Please see ALL PHOTOS.......Payment must be received within 5 days of purchase.
Tracks:
A1 Luckie A2 Lu A3 Sweet Blindness A4 Poverty Train A5 Lonely Women A6 Eli's Comin B1 Timer B2 Stoned Soul Picnic B3 Emmie B4 Woman's Blues B5 Once It Was Alright Now (Farmer Joe) B6 December's Boudoir B7 The ConfessionBackground on this album:
In the spring of 1968, Laura Nyro's Columbia Records debut Eli and the Thirteenth Confession unleashed something very unique and beautiful onto the scene. Unfortunately, the album fell on mostly deaf ears, peaking at #189 on the Billboard 200, and as with Laura's following record New York Tendaberry, contained no chart hit singles (for herself). Nearly thirty years later, Laura Nyro is still woefully unknown to the public, although the potency of her music remains.
Upon Laura's insistence, the lyric sheet within each LP was perfumed. This act in itself says a lot about her artistry. While the instrumentation and influences evident in Eli and the Thirteenth Confession are mostly familiar, new perspectives and directions make the album into the radical experience that it is. Reviewers commonly refer to the music as an amalgamation of Soul, Pop, Jazz, Broadway, and whatever else, but these styles are so expertly fused into something wonderfully new, that naming the possible components just isn't worthwhile. "Sweet Blindness" may sound age-old, but there's never been another drinking song remotely like it. "Poverty Train" goes to more places, and back again, than any of Bob Dylan and company's "protest" songs. Sexual revolutions and all, a woman ending her album by screaming "love my lovething" had to have been something original. Throughout the record, Laura's voice, piano, and guitars careen and writhe all over, tempos and chord structures being swept to and fro at her pleasing. But originality is only half of the story.
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession was in many ways Ms. Nyro's first complete musical statement, and as such it was the first to exhibit her overall mastery of the LP. Although many of the lyrics are ambiguous and even downright silly, one can't help but find several over-arching themes from song to song and throughout the record. And from the opening "Yes I'm ready!" to the fiery lust of "The Confession", Laura makes full use of the album format, taking every turn with thoughtful effectiveness.
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