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.
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