Laura Nyro
Live at the Bottom Line
1989
Cyprus Records1. Confession
2. High Heeled Sneakers
3. Roll of the Ocean
4. Companion
5. Wild World
6. My Innocence/Sophia
7. To a Child
8. And When I Die
9. Park Song
10. Broken Rainbow
11. Women of the One World
12. Emmie
13. Wedding Bell Blues
14. Japanese Restaurant Song
15. Stoned Soul Picnic
16. Medley: La La Means I Love You/Trees of the Ages/Up on the RoofLaura: Live at the Bottom Line
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Studio album by Laura Nyro
Released 1989
Recorded New York City, 1988
Genre Pop
Length 62:17
Label Cypress Records (UK)
Cypress Records (US)
Producer(s) Laura NyroLive at the Bottom Line is the second live album by New York-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro and her tenth original album in total, including the 1977 live album Season of Lights.
Nyro’s long-time label Columbia Records wanted a brand new studio album from Nyro, who had stayed with the label despite not having had a reasonable commercial success for well over a decade. Instead, she decided she wanted to go on the road and record a new live album.
Columbia did not approve, and a deal was negotiated allowing Nyro to release the live album on a different label, Cypress, before returning to Columbia for another studio album.
Live at the Bottom Line was recorded at New York’s famous intimate venue, the Bottom Line, and mixes some of Nyro’s famous compositions with newer ones and also previously unreleased songs.
This live album, which follows twelve years after Season of Lights, was recorded during Nyro’s tour in 1988. Her voice had been recovering after she gave up her smoking habit, and the atmosphere of the album is notably relaxed and entertaining.
Nyro’s six new songs here are often humorous and light-hearted in stark contrast to the wild and adventurous music on her earliest albums and the more world-conscious songs of her most recent studio albums. It was very well-received by critics, and earned Nyro several new interviews and articles.
The album was not a commercial success, however, and Nyro would not release another live album during her lifetime. After the release of Laura: Live at the Bottom Line, Nyro recorded two new studio albums, of which only one was released, and a retrospective collection before her death in 1997.