The Legacy imprint of
Columbia Records reissued the album in re-mastered and expanded format during the summer of
2002 alongside similar reissues of ''
Eli And The Thirteenth Confession '' and ''
Gonna Take A Miracle ''.
The reissue featured the previously unreleased song "In the Country Way," recorded by Nyro during
1971 oddly enough, as well as the
Mono single version of "Save the Country," which was recorded in the summer of
1968 in an attempt to give Nyro her first chart hit. This attempt backfired, and Nyro stuck to her solo piano renditions for the ''New York Tendaberry'' album.
The accompanying booklet features photographs, lyrics, and recording details, as well as new liner notes by David Fricke and a back-cover reminiscence from
Suzanne Vega . The reissued version was voted among Uncut magazine's Best Albums of 2002.
- Legendary 20th Century music pioneer Miles Davis attended one of the sessions.
- Musician Rickie Lee Jones counts it among her favourite albums of all time.
- The original version of the album was recorded with a full band in 1968 to follow up the sound of '' Eli And The Thirteenth Confession '', but Nyro decided to re-record it the way she wanted before the end of the year.
- It took the longest of any Nyro album to record.
- Nyro's original plan for the cover was to have several ducks at her feet.
- The original cover is a photograph of Nyro's New York apartment balcony, but at the last minute she changed her mind. Some of these original copies still exist and are a collector's item.
- Nyro had decided upon the album title even before many of the songs were written.
- It cost between $50,000 and $60,000 to record, which was around double the amount usual albums cost at the time.
- ''New York Tendaberry'' is the most commercially successful Laura Nyro album.
All Music Guide
Laura Nyro
Michele Kort's biography ''Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro''
