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Christmas and the Beads of Sweat

Her 1970 album of nine songs, made in New York in May 1970 with players from Muscle Shoals and from jazz.
Laura Nyro, 1970

Christmas and the Beads of Sweat was recorded in New York in May 1970, produced by Felix Cavaliere and Arif Mardin, with Roy Segal and Tim Geelan as engineers, and reached number 51. Side one has Barry Beckett on vibes, Cavaliere on organ and bells, David Hood on bass, Roger Hawkins on drums, Eddie Hinton on electric guitar, Jack Jennings on percussion and Stuart Scharf on acoustic guitar; side two has Alice Coltrane on harp, Dino Danelli on drums, Cornell Dupree on guitar, Joe Farrell on woodwinds, Ashod Garabedian on oud, Ralph MacDonald on percussion, Chuck Rainey on bass and Michael Szittai on cimbalon, and Duane Allman and Richard Davis are credited without track assignments. AllMusic gave it four stars, and her cover of "Up on the Roof" reached number 92, her only chart single.

Track listing

  1. Brown Earth4:09
  2. When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag2:42
  3. Blackpatch3:33
  4. Been on a Train5:49
  5. Up on the Roof3:13
  6. Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp5:34
  7. Map to the Treasure8:08
  8. Beads of Sweat4:47
  9. Christmas in My Soul7:00

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Sources

  1. Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, Wikipedia