Artist: Leonda
Album: Woman In the Sun
Genre: Pop, Folk, Pop Rock
Release Date: 1968/2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 42:33
Total Tracks: 10
Total Size: 952 MB

Tracklist:

1. Leonda – Mist In the Sky (03:40)
2. Leonda – Somebody’s Gonna Ask Me Who I Was (05:00)
3. Leonda – When I Lived In My Grandmother’s House (04:36)
4. Leonda – Blue Diamond In A Platinum Setting (03:29)
5. Leonda – Mother In Love (03:52)
6. Leonda – Come Take a Waltz Through My Heart (03:40)
7. Leonda – Peace and Pipes (06:46)
8. Leonda – Zono My Bird (03:42)
9. Leonda – Head Country (To the Lost City of Zoozoo) (03:40)
10. Leonda – Make It All Right (04:03)

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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.”