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''Laura: Live 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. ==Overview== 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. Nyro paid $18,000 for a quarter-page black and white advertisement in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laura: Live at the Bottom Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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