Walk the Dog and Light the Light is the ninth studio album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. It was released in the late summer of 1993, more than nine years after its predecessor, Mother's Spiritual. It followed Nyro's 1989 live albumLaura: Live at the Bottom Line, and the atmosphere here is similarly laidback and easygoing.
It was the last album of new original material that Nyro released during her lifetime, although she began recording another album in 1994, which was released in 2001 as Angel in the Dark.[3]Walk the Dog and Light the Light received positive critical notices,[4][5][6] and Nyro supported the album with a string of intimate dates with a harmony vocal group.
Overview
Walk the Dog and Light the Light grew out of Nyro's 1988 tour, which resulted in her live album Laura: Live at the Bottom Line. Thus, the music is similarly laidback and features largely the same cast of musicians, including percussionist Nydia "Liberty" Mata, with whom Nyro had collaborated since the mid-1970s.[7][8]
David Frank – horn and flute arrangements, additional production assistant
In popular culture
The song "Broken Rainbow" had been written and recorded for an Oscar-nominated documentary of the same name in 1985, and was issued in live form on 1989's Laura: Live at the Bottom Line.[9]
"To a Child" was originally included in a different version on 1984's Mother's Spiritual.
Bibliography
Michele Kort's biography Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro, St. Martin's Griffin (May 2003) – ISBN0-312-20941-X