Consumer Guide Album

Laura Nyro: Season of Lights: Laura Nyro in Concert [Columbia, 1977]
Most rock and rollers are too loose on live albums, but Nyro gets so carried away in the studio that the unerasable living band insures relatively straightforward remakes. My favorite moment, though, is when she introduces the musicians in a speaking voice nasal enough to make Dion sound Delta born-and-raised--finally I understand why Bronxites love her. I await explanations from Queens. B-