Her third Columbia, from 1970.
With Muscle Shoals crew on side one β Roger Hawkins, Eddie Hinton, Barry Beckett and co β and a lineup convening the Armenian oud-plyer Ashod Garabedian, Duane Allman and Alice Coltrane, on side two.
‘I love my country as it dies in war and pain before my eyes. I walk the streets where disrespect has been. The sins of politics, the politics of sin, the heartlessness that darkens my soul… on Christmas.’
‘Laura liberated musicians to employ all their influences in crafting a pop song β as she had combined jazz, folk, classical, 60s soul, the Beatles, Dylan, Tin Pan Alley… so ahead of its time itβs still ahead…’