Odetta - Collection '1957-2003

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Biography:
One of the strongest voices in the folk revival and the civil rights movement,
Odetta was born on New Years Eve 1930 in Birmingham, AL. By the time she was six
years old, she had moved with her younger sister and mother to Los Angeles. She
showed a keen interest in music from the time she was a child, and when she was
about ten years old, somewhere between church and school, her singing voice was
discovered. Odettas mother began saving money to pay for voice lessons for her,
but was advised to wait until her daughter was 13 years old and well into
puberty. Thanks to her mother, Odetta began voice lessons when she was 13. She
received a classical training, which was interrupted when her mother could no
longer afford to pay for the lessons. The puppeteer Harry Burnette interceded
and paid for Odetta to continue her voice training.

When she was 19 years old, Odetta landed a role in the Los Angeles production of
Finians Rainbow, which was staged in the summer of 1949 at the Greek Theatre in
Los Angeles. It was during the run of this show that she first heard the blues
harmonica master Sonny Terry. The following summer, Odetta was again performing
in summer stock in California. This time it was a production of Guys and Dolls,
staged in San Francisco. Hanging out in North Beach during her days off, Odetta
had her first experience with the growing local folk music scene. Following her
summer in San Francisco, Odetta returned to Los Angeles, where she worked as a
live-in housekeeper. During this time she performed on a show bill with Paul
Robeson.

The Tin Angel In 1953, Odetta took some time off from her housecleaning chores
to travel to New York City and appear at the famed Blue Angel folk club. Pete
Seeger and Harry Belafonte had both taken an interest in her career by this
time, and her debut album, The Tin Angel, was released in 1954. From this time
forward, Odetta worked to expand her repertoire and make full use of what she
has always termed her instrument. When she began singing, she was considered a
coloratura soprano. As she matured, she became more of a mezzo-soprano. Her
experience singing folk music led her to discover a vocal range that runs from
coloratura to baritone.
Christmas SpiritualsOdettas most productive decade as a recording artist came in
the 1960s, when she released 16 albums, including Odetta at Carnegie Hall,
Christmas Spirituals, Odetta and the Blues, Its a Mighty World, and Odetta Sings
Dylan. In 1999 she released her first studio album in 14 years, Blues Everywhere
I Go. On September 29, 1999, President Bill Clinton presented Odetta with the
National Endowment for the Arts Medal of the Arts, a fitting tribute to one of
the great treasures of American music.
Livin with the Blues The next few years found Odetta releasing some new
full-length albums, including Livin with the Blues and a collection of Leadbelly
tunes, Looking for a Home. She toured North America, Latvia, and Scotland and
was mentioned in Martin Scorseses 2005 documentary, No Direction Home. That same
year Odetta released Gonna Let It Shine, which went on to receive a 2007 Grammy
nomination for Best Traditional Folk Album. In December 2008, she died of heart
disease in New York.

Albums:
1957 - Sings Ballads And Blues FLAC
1958 - Odetta And Larry - The Tin Angel FLAC
1960 - Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall FLAC
1960 - Christmas Spirituals APE
1962 - Odetta And The Blues FLAC
1963 - My Eyes Have Seen FLAC
1963 - Odetta Sings Folk Songs FLAC
1963 - One Grain of Sand FLAC
1965 - Odetta Sings Dylan APE
1998 - To Ella FLAC
1999 - Blues Everywhere I Go FLAC
2001 - Lookin for a Home FLAC
2002 - Ballad For Americans+At Carnegie Hall FLAC
2003 - At the Gate of Horn FLAC

 1957 Sings Ballads and Blues
01. Odetta - Santy Anno 
02. Odetta - If I Had a Ribbon Bow 
03. Odetta - Muleskinner Blues 
04. Odetta - Another Man Done Gone 
05. Odetta - Shame and Scandal 
06. Odetta - Jack O Diamonds 
07. Odetta - Buked and Scorned 
08. Odetta - Easy Rider 
09. Odetta - Joshua 
10. Odetta - Hound Dog 
11. Odetta - Glory, Glory 
12. Odetta - Alabama Bound 
13. Odetta - Been In the Pen 
14. Odetta - Deep Blue Sea 
15. Odetta - Gods Gonna Cut You Down 
16. Odetta - Spiritual Trilogy 

1953-1954 The Tin Angel
01. Odetta and Larry - John Henry
02. Odetta and Larry - Old Cotton Fields At Home
03. Odetta and Larry - The Frozen Logger
04. Odetta and Larry - Run, Come See Jerusalem
05. Odetta and Larry - Old Blue
06. Odetta and Larry - Water Boy
07. Odetta and Larry - Santy Ana
08. Odetta and Larry - I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago - The Biggest Thing
09. Odetta and Larry - The Car-Car Song
10. Odetta and Larry - No More Cane On The Brazos
11. Odetta and Larry - Pay Day At Coal Creek
12. Odetta and Larry - Ive Been Buked And Ive Been Scorned
13. Odetta and Larry - Rock Island Line
14. Odetta and Larry - Another Man Don Gone
15. Odetta and Larry - Children Go Where I Send Thee
16. Odetta and Larry - I Know Where Im Going
17. Odetta and Larry - Hes Got The Whole World In His Hands
18. Odetta and Larry - Timber
19. Odetta and Larry - Wade In The Water

1960 Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall
01. Harry Belafonte - Jump Down Spin Around
02. Harry Belafonte - Suzanne
03. Harry Belafonte - A Little Lyric Of Great Importance
04. Harry Belafonte - Chickens
05. Harry Belafonte - Vaichazkem
06. Harry Belafonte - I Do Adore Her
07. Harry Belafonte - The Ballade Of Sigmund Freud
08. Harry Belafonte - Ive Been Driving On Bald Mountain-Water Boy
09. Harry Belafonte - A Hole In Bucket
10. Harry Belafonte - The Click Song
11. Harry Belafonte - One More Dance
12. Harry Belafonte - The Ox Drivers
13. Harry Belafonte - The Red Rosy Bush
14. Harry Belafonte - Didnt It Rain
15. Harry Belafonte - Hen Ma Tov
16. Harry Belafonte - I Know Where Im Going
17. Harry Belafonte - Old King Cole
18. Harry Belafonte - La Bamba

1988 Christmas Spirituals
01. Odetta - Rise Up Sheperd And Follow
02. Odetta - What Month Was Jesus Born In?
03. Odetta - Mary Had A Baby
04. Odetta - Somebody Talking bout Jesus
05. Odetta - Virgin Mary Had One Son
06. Odetta - Go Tell It On The Mountain
07. Odetta - Shout For Joy
08. Odetta - Poor Little Jesus
09. Odetta - O Jerusalem
10. Odetta - Aint That A-Rockin
11. Odetta - If Anybody Asks You
12. Odetta - Beautiful Star
13. Odetta - Children Go Where I Send Thee

1962 Odetta and the blues
01. Odetta - Hard, Oh Lord
02. Odetta - Believe Ill Go
03. Odetta - Oh, Papa
04. Odetta - How Long Blues
05. Odetta - Hogans Alley
06. Odetta - Leavin This Morning
07. Odetta - Oh, My Baby
08. Odetta - Yonder Comes The Blues
09. Odetta - Make Me A Pallet On the Floor
10. Odetta - Weeping Willow Blues
11. Odetta - Go Down, Sunshine
12. Odetta - Nobody Knows You When Youre Down and Out

1963 My Eyes Have Seen
01. Odetta - Poor Little Jesus
02. Odetta - Bald Headed Woman
03. Odetta - Motherless Children
04. Odetta - I Know Where Im Going
05. Odetta - The Foggy Dew
06. Odetta - Ive Been Driving on Bald Mountain/Water Boy
07. Odetta - Ox-driver Song
08. Odetta - Down on Me
09. Odetta - Saro Jane
10. Odetta - Three Pigs
11. Odetta - No More Cane on the Brazos
12. Odetta - Jumpin Judy
13. Odetta - Battle Hymn of the Republic

1963 Odetta Sings Folk Songs
01. Odetta - 900 Miles
02. Odetta - Blowing in the Wind
03. Odetta - Maybe She Go
04. Odetta - I Never Will Marry
05. Odetta - Yes I See
06. Odetta - Why Oh Why
07. Odetta - Shenandoah
08. Odetta - The Golden Vanity
09. Odetta - Roberta
10. Odetta - Anthem of the Rainbow
11. Odetta - All My Trials
12. Odetta - This Little Light of Mine

1963 One Grain of Sand
01. Odetta - Sail Away, Ladies
02. Odetta - Moses, Moses
03. Odetta - Midnight Special
04. Odetta - Rambler-Gambler
05. Odetta - Cotton Fields
06. Odetta - Roll On, Buddy
07. Odetta - Aint No Grave
08. Odetta - Special Delivery Blues
09. Odetta - Rambling Round Your City
10. Odetta - Boll Weevil
11. Odetta - Come All Ye Fair & Tender Ladies
12. Odetta - She Moved Through the Fair
13. Odetta - Cool Water
14. Odetta - One Grain of Sand

1965 Odetta Sings Dylan
01. Odetta - Baby, Im In The Mood For You
02. Odetta - Long Ago, Far Away
03. Odetta - Dont Think Twice, Its All Right
04. Odetta - Tomorrow is a Long Time
05. Odetta - Masters of War
06. Odetta - Walkin Down The Line
07. Odetta - The Times They Are A-Changin
08. Odetta - With God On Our Side
09. Odetta - Long Time Gone (2)
10. Odetta - Mr.Tambourine Man
11. Odetta - Blowin In The Wind
12. Odetta - Paths Of Victory

1998 To Ella
01. Odetta - Black Woman
02. Odetta - The Fox
03. Odetta - Suite: Ancestors
04. Odetta - Ol Lady sally
05. Odetta - Amazing Grace

2003 Blues Everywhere I Go - Reference Vocal Sound
01. Odetta - You Gotta Know How
02. Odetta - W.P.A. Blues
03. Odetta - Blues Everywhere I Go
04. Odetta - Please Send Me Someone to Love
05. Odetta - Look the World Over
06. Odetta - Cant Afford to Lose My Man
07. Odetta - Ive Been Living With the Blues\Trouble Everywhere
08. Odetta - Unemployment Blues
09. Odetta - Rich Man Blues
10. Odetta - Dinks Blues
11. Odetta - Homeless Blues
12. Odetta - T.B Blues
13. Odetta - Oh, Papa
14. Odetta - St. Louis Blues\Careless Love
15. Odetta - Hear Me Talking to You

2001 Lookin for a Home
01. Odetta - Goodnight Irene
02. Odetta - You Dont Know My Mind
03. Odetta - Mothers Blues
04. Odetta - When I Was a Cowboy
05. Odetta - In the Pines
06. Odetta - How Long
07. Odetta - Bourgeois Blues
08. Odetta - Alabama Bound / Boll Weevil
09. Odetta - Roberta
10. Odetta - New Orleans
11. Odetta - Jim Crow Blues
12. Odetta - Rock Island Line
13. Odetta - Jullie Anne Johnson / Whoa Black Buck
14. Odetta - Easy Rider
15. Odetta - Midnight Special

2002 Ballad For Americans+At Carnegie Hall
01. Odetta - Ballads For Americans
02. Odetta - This Land
03. Odetta - On Top Of Old Smokey
04. Odetta - Hush Little Baby
05. Odetta - Dark As A Dungeon
06. Odetta - Great Historical Bum
07. Odetta - Payday At Coal Creek
08. Odetta - Going Home
09. Odetta - Pastures Of Plenty
10. Odetta - If I Had A Hammer
11. Odetta - Im Going Back To Red Clay Country
12. Odetta - When I Was A Young Girl
13. Odetta - Gallows Pole
14. Odetta - Gods A-Gonna Cut You Down
15. Odetta - John Riley
16. Odetta - John Henry
17. Odetta - Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho
18. Odetta - All The Pretty Little Horses
19. Odetta - Prettiest Train
20. Odetta - Meeting At The Building
21. Odetta - No More Auction Block For Me
22. Odetta - Hold On
23. Odetta - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
24. Odetta - Aint No Grave Can Hold My Body Down

2003 At the Gate of Horn
01. Odetta - Gallows Tree (Gallows Pole)
02. Odetta - Lowlands
03. Odetta - The Fox
04. Odetta - Maybe She Go
05. Odetta - Midnight Special
06. Odetta - Deep River
07. Odetta - Chilly Wings
08. Odetta - Greensleevs
09. Odetta - Devilish Mary
10. Odetta - Take This Hammer
11. Odetta - Hes Got the Whole World in His Hands
12. Odetta - Sail Away Ladies
13. Odetta - Lass of the Low Country
14. Odetta - Timber
15. Odetta - Pretty Horses

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