The Essential Recordings
Odetta
The Essential Recordings
Odetta
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About
Odetta was known as 'The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement', and Martin Luther King Jr. himself pronounced her 'The Queen Of American Folk Music'. Here we provide 40 magisterial performances from the woman who was an influence on Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and whole host of folk musicians and singers that followed.
Contents and tracklist
Disc 1
Santy Anno
If I Had a Ribbon Bow
Muleskinner Blues
Another Man Done Gone
Shame and Scandal
Jack O' Diamonds
Joshua
'Buked and Scorned
Glory, Glory
Alabama Bound
Been in the Pen
Spiritual Trilogy: Oh Freedom/Come and Go With Me/I'm On My Way
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
Sail Away Ladies, Sail Away
The Gallows Pole
The Fox
Maybe She Go
The Lass from the Low Countree
Timber
Deep River
Disc 2
If I Had a Hammer
John Riley
John Henry
Hold On
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Chilly Winds
All the Pretty Little Horses
The Midnight Special
Take This Hammer
Poor Little Jesus
Motherless Children
I Know Where I'm Going
Down On Me
I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain/Water Boy
Sara Jane
No More Cane On the Brazos
Battle Hymn of the Republic
This Land
Going Home
Pastures of Plenty
