Anybody know where to score a copy of the 2016 Eli and the thirteenth Confession SACD?

emarei -- I'd be shocked if the night I saw Laura at the Troub wasn't her L.A. debut. I can't remember exactly who, but I saw my share of Hollywood movie and music heavyweights in the audience.  She hardly played a single tune straight.  She'd start a tune and then veer off into improvisations than often took her far, far from what was on the albums. Utterly superb. The Bowl performance wasn't very well attended.  I half-remember that they closed off most of the venue, with everybody guided to the first twenty rows or so.  BTW,I have a Laura Nyro song book, complete with transcriptions of her piano parts. In my now long-gone piano-playing heyday, I had more than a few of them under my fingers.  Of course, I never even tried to sing 'em.

That's awesome, was she well known by then and how did you get wind of the performance. Also I have heard about that book and would also be at a loss on how to sing her songs. Happy Thanksgiving!

emarei -- I was in...or just out of...high school.  I'd previously enjoyed Wedding Bell Blues, which was a modest hit on L.A. AM radio.  I went to a party.  Eli and the Thirteenth Confession was on the record player.  I absolutely had to have it but none of my go-to record stores had a copy.  I finally found one at a hipster record store in West Hollywood, ironically just a few doors down from the Troubadour.  I kept my eyes peeled for any mention of the woman.  Was it the L.A. Times or the L.A. Free Press that mentioned her upcoming Troubadour appearance? Who knows?

Oh wow, you're almost in the same situation that I'm in when I found out about her as well. How much did a record cost back then? Also I did read that at the time she was more popular on the radio in the West Coast than the East. I cannot imagine music on the AM Radio as nowadays I only hear morning programs and talk shows on it. Funny and pretty fortunate how you heard about her just right before her performance there. I could only imagine.

There were at least three rock-and-roll AM stations in Los Angeles in the late 1960's.  There were no FM rock-and-roll stations at all.  FM stations still mostly broadcast in mono, and the few stations that did broadcast in stereo mostly featured M.O.R. -- movie themes, percussion spectaculars & the like.  Stereo quality was pretty problematic, too.  One channel almost always had much lower quality.  It was distorted and ugly.  The one or two stations that could broadcast quality sound in both channels could be counted on the fingers of one hand.  College radio? Public radio?  Huh?  Wha?  There was, though, an excellent jazz station, KNOB ("the jazz knob").  Still better, the AM classical station KFAC had an FM simulcast.  Lemme tell ya'.  I listened to those stations a lot!  Excuse my ramblings.