Laura Nyro - Walk the Dog and Light the Light (1993)
Tracklist front / back album covers
"Oh Yeah Maybe Baby (The Heebie Jeebies)" (Hank Hunter, Phil Spector) 3:18
"A Woman of the World" 4:13
"The Descent of Luna Rose" 3:37
"Art of Love" 3:41
"Lite a Flame (The Animal Rights Song)" 3:22
"Louise's Church" 3:37
"Broken Rainbow" 3:57
"Walk the Dog and Light the Light (Song of the Road)" 3:48
"To a Child" 3:32
"I'm So Proud/Dedicated to the One I Love" (Curtis Mayfield/Ralph Bass, Lowman Pauling) 3:40
Laura Nyro Band Members / Musicians
Laura Nyro - lead voice, harmonies, keyboards
Bernard Purdie - drums
Freddie Washington - bass guitar
Jerry Jemmott - bass guitar on "Walk the Dog and Light the Light (Song of the Road)"
Elliott Randall, Michael Landau, Ira Siegel - guitar
Bashiri Johnson, Erik McKain - percussion
Ellen Uryevick - harp
Juliet Haffner, Sue Pray, Julie Green, Jeanne Le Blanc, Marilyn Wright, Belinda Whitney Barat, Joyce Hammann, Beryl Diamond, Rani Vaz, Laura Seaton, Gene Orloff, Sanford Allen, Mindy Jostyn - strings
Lou Marini, Roger Rosenberg, Randy Brecker, Lawrence Feldman - horns
Michael Brecker - saxophone solo
Lou Marini - flute solo
Laura Nyro, Carlos Franzetti - string arrangements
David Frank - horn and flute arrangements, additional production assistant
Walk the Dog and Light the Light is the 9th 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 album Laura: 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. Walk the Dog and Light the Light received positive critical notices, and Nyro supported the album with a string of intimate dates with a harmony vocal group.
