Leonda – Woman In the Sun (1968/2018) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Leonda – Woman In the Sun (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:28 minutes | 952 MB | Genre: Pop, Folk, Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy

Though it was released on a major label (Columbia’s Epic subsidiary) in the late ’60s, Leonda’s sole album, Woman in the Sun, is extremely rare, and little known even among fans of singer/songwriters of the era. Because Leonda is Native American, and sometimes uses prominent vibrato in her vocal phrasing, she might generate comparisons to the most well-known Native American singer/songwriter of that era, Buffy Sainte-Marie. Actually, however, she’s almost as similar to Annisette of Savage Rose or (more distantly) Melanie, or perhaps some of the gutsier woman singers from late-’60s West Coast rock bands. While Leonda has an appealing, somewhat raspy voice, her folk-bluesy material (with backup help from members of the Canadian rock band the Paupers) is less impressive. The songs are fairly meandering and not all that tuneful, if good-natured with a vaguely hippie uplifting vibe. Things are better when she moves away from a blues base to a folkier one, as she does with the orchestrated “When I Lived in My Grandmother’s House” and the acoustic “Zono My Bird.”

Tracklist:
01. Mist In the Sky
02. Somebody’s Gonna Ask Me Who I Was
03. When I Lived In My Grandmother’s House
04. Blue Diamond In A Platinum Setting
05. Mother In Love
06. Come Take a Waltz Through My Heart
07. Peace and Pipes
08. Zono My Bird
09. Head Country (To the Lost City of Zoozoo)
10. Make It All Right

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