Before singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Carly Simon, there was Laura Nyro. The composer recorded her first album, More Than a New Discovery, at age 19 in 1966, for Verve Folkways. But it was her next one, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, for Columbia in 1968, that turned heads.
The LP is still warm and intriguing, and established her…
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