Walk the Dog & Light the Light

Laura Nyro | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 1993)
• Original Release Date: September 28, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000028L5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,182 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweetest Sounds, September 17, 1999

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Peter Letheby (Adelaide, South Australia Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walk the Dog & Light the Light (Audio CD)

Having only just discovered this remarkable woman's work I feel cheated I hadn't made the effort many years earlier. Laura Nyro was just a name behind many great hits and album cuts (eg "Flim Flam Man" for Streisand) until I heard these recordings. Her voice is soothing, thrilling and all things for all moods. On Walk the Dog.. songs such as "Art Of Love", "Broken Rainbow" and "Lite a Flame" express so many sentiments and emotions in beautiful, simple lyrics and sympathetic arrangements. From the first "Oh yeahs" of "Maybe Baby" to the closing epiphany of "Dedicated To the One I Love" Laura transports me into another time and place.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid, Mature Nyro, December 22, 2006

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dcs "dcs1951" (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walk the Dog & Light the Light (Audio CD)

Released in 1993, this was Laura Nyro's final, fully constructed album released before her death in 1997.

It was produced by the famed Steely Dan producer Gary Katz (an old schoolmate of Nyro), and his attention to detail, tasteful touches and overall clean style mesh well with Laura's undiminished ability as a superb vocalist.

Laura was now 46 years old and no longer the fragile, black-gowned dramatist of the 1960s. While her songs of this late period generally lack the youthful "fire" of her early material, they now reveal a deeper, richer, more stable artist, secure in her legacy. Gone are the images of devils and heartbreaking lovers. In their place are songs about animal rights, the environment, the human condition, and a couple of rock / R& B oldies, which she performs with her marvelous trademark arrangements and chord changes. The title song is a sweet message to her son, who was 11 years old at the time. Oh yes, and there is one very amusing song about....well you'll find out.

A very, very respectable piece of work from one of America's great innovators in the autumn of her life.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's good, but not peak Nyro......, July 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Walk the Dog & Light the Light (Audio CD)

If you have every other Nyro album, this is a good addition to your collection, but buy the others first. Nothing on this album screams GENIUS like her first four albums: More Than a New Discovery (retitled the First Songs), Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, New York Tendaberry, and Christmas and the Beads of Sweat.