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Odetta Top Songs
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• Blues Everywhere I Go - Odetta
• TB Blues - Odetta
• Trouble Everywhere / I've Been Living With The Blues - Odetta
• Dink's Blues - Odetta
• Unemployment Blues - Odetta
• Please Send Me Someone To Love - (with Dr. John) - Odetta
• Can't Afford To Lose My Man - Odetta
• He's Got The Whole World In His Hands - Odetta
• Homeless Blues - Odetta
• You Gotta Know How - Odetta
• Careless Love / St. Louis Blues - Odetta
• Devilish Mary - Odetta
• Rambling Round Your City - Odetta
• Maybe She Go - Odetta
• Go Down, Sunshine - Odetta
• Lowlands - Odetta
• Deep River - Odetta
• Midnight Special - Odetta
• You Don't Know My Mind - Odetta
• Go Tell It On The Mountain - Odetta
• Rich Man Blues - Odetta
• Hear Me Talking To You - Odetta
• Look The World Over - Odetta
• Oh Papa - Odetta
• Hard, Oh Lord - Odetta
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Odetta Discography
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• Christmas Spirituals - Odetta
• Vanguard Visionaries - Odetta
• Ballads & Blues - Odetta
• At The Gate Of Horn - Odetta
• Sings Ballads And Blues - Odetta
• The Best Of Odetta - Ballads & Blues - Odetta
• Gonna Let It Shine - Odetta
• Gonna Let It Shine - Odetta
• Gonna Let It Shine - Odetta
• Sings Ballads and Blues [Bonus Tracks] - Odetta
• American Folk Music Pioneer - Odetta
• Odetta - Odetta
• Women in Emotion - Odetta
• Tradition Masters - Odetta
• Ballad for Americans and Other American Ballads/Odetta at Carnegie Hall - Odetta
• Lookin' For A Home - Odetta
• Absolutely the Best - Odetta
• The Women of Silverwolf - Odetta
• Livin' With The Blues - Odetta
• Best Of The Vanguard Years - Odetta
• Blues Everywhere I Go - Odetta
• To Ella - Odetta
• Movin' It On - Odetta
• The Essential Odetta - Odetta
• Christmas Spirituals - Odetta
• One Grain Of Sand - Odetta
• Odetta And The Blues - Odetta
• At Town Hall - Odetta
• Christmas Spirituals - Odetta
• My Eyes Have Seen - Odetta
• At The Gate Of Horn - Odetta
• Sings Ballads And Blues - Odetta
• The Tin Angel - Odetta
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Odetta Sheet Music
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Odetta
By Odetta. Homespun Tapes (Instructional). Video cassette. Published by Homespun Video.
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The Essential Odetta |
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Amazon.com sales rank: 49193 |
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SINGING FOR HER LIFE
I have been listening to and occasionally attending concerts by Odetta for over forty years and she still brings that big strong voice to her work as she did when I first heard her. A big strong strumming guitar adds to the pleasure. She is the consummate female interpreter of the old ballads that denoted the struggle of blacks and other at work and play in slavery times and later in wage slavery times. Religious sentiments about a better life in the hereafter because this life so is hell are also interwoven into some these ballads. It is hard today to get the full impact of that genre but I have noticed that audiences still response to her gentle prodding to sing along. If you have one Odetta album to get this is the one. Some children-oriented ballads, also sing-along-able add to the flavor of this album. Standouts here are If I Had A Hammer and Long Chains On.
Stirring
Odetta's passion brings home the burden of the slave and the sharecropper. Haunting! Sound quality could be improved.
One fine compilation, one fine artist
"The Essential Odetta", consisting of 20 live songs, was recorded and released in the early sixties as two separate albums capturing performances at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall. The full 20 songs showcase her extraordinary singing capabilities, interpreting folk and blues numbers. It is one of the two best compilations of her work, the other one being "Best of the Vanguard Years".
Since her debut in 1954, Odetta served as an inspiration to folk artists such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, who picked up steam in the mid-to-late sixties. It was, as a matter of fact, thanks to the Martin Scorcese documentary about Dylan, "No Direction Home", that I first heard of her, and I am glad I did. This is one fine artist that deserves to be discovered by the new generations.
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