The Albums Collection 1954-62 Odetta Holmes, generally simply known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist, who acquired a reputation as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". She was mainly seen as an American folk artist, although her repertoire encompassed blues spirituals and jazz. She was a key figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, and influenced many of the emerging artists of that time, like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Janis Joplin. Martin Luther King Jr. Called her the "queen of American folk music". Beginning her career in musical theatre, she got involved with folk music and became popular club performer in the mid-1950s, and made her first 'live' recording in 1954, eventually enjoying a performing career which lasted over half a century. This great-value 122-track 5-CD set focuses on the formative first decade or so of her recordings career, when she established her reputation and became a high-profile artist. It comprises the complete content of nine of her albums for Tradition, Vanguard and RCA - "The Tin Angel" (with Larry Mohr), "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues", "At the Gate of Horn Tradition", "My Eyes Have Seen Vanguard", "Ballad For Americans and Other American Ballads", "Odetta and The Blues", "Live At Carnegie Hall", "Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin'" and "Odetta At Town Hall. It also includes singles released during the era which were not on albums, notably her 'live' TV performance with Harry Belafonte on "Hole In My Bucket" which was aUK hit in 1961. It's a great showcase for a highly distinctive and influential talent. Odetta Holmes, generally simply known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist, who acquired a reputation as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement".
8 I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago/The Biggest Thing
9 Riding in My Car
10 No More Cane on the Brazos
11 Payday at Coal Creek
12 Buked and Scorned
13 Rock Island Line
14 Santy Anno
15 If I Had a Ribbon Bow
16 Muleskinner Blues
17 Another Man Done Gone
18 Shame and Scandal
19 Jack O' Diamonds
20 Buked and Scorned
21 Easy Rider
22 Joshua
23 Hound Dog
24 Glory, Glory
25 Alabama Bound
26 Been in the Pen
27 Deep Blue Sea
- Disc 2 -
1 God's Gonna Cut You Down
2 Spiritual Trilogy: Oh, Freedom, Come and Go with Me, I'm on My w
3 He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
4 Sail Away Ladies, Sail Away
5 The Gallows Pole
6 Lowlands
7 The Fox
8 Maybe She Go
9 The Lass from the Low Countree
10 Timber
11 Deep River
12 Chilly Winds
13 Greensleeves
14 Devilish Mary
15 All the Pretty Little Horses
16 The Midnight Special
17 Take This Hammer
18 Poor Little Jesus
19 Bald Headed Woman
20 Motherless Children
21 I Know Where I'm Going
22 The Foggy Dew
23 I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain/Water Boy
24 Ox-Driver Song
25 Down on Me
- Disc 3 -
1 Saro Jane
2 Three Pigs
3 No More Cane on the Brazos
4 Jumpin' Judy
5 Battle Hymn of the Republic
6 Ballad for Americans
7 This Land
8 On Top of Old Smokey
9 Hush Little Baby
10 Dark As a Dungeon
11 Great Historical Bum
12 Payday at Coal Creek
13 Going Home
14 Pastures of Plenty
15 Hard, Oh Lord
16 Believe I'll Go
17 Oh, Papa
18 How Long Blues
19 Hogan's Alley
20 Leavin' This Morning
21 Oh, My Babe
22 Yonder Comes the Blues
- Disc 4 -
1 Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
2 Weeping Willow Blues
3 Go Down, Sunshine
4 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
5 If I Had a Hammer
6 Red Clay Country
7 When I Was a Young Girl
8 Gallows Pole
9 God's A-Gonna Cut You Down
10 John Riley
11 John Henry
12 Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
13 All the Pretty Little Horses
14 Prettiest Train
15 Meeting at the Building
16 No More Auction Block
17 Hold on
18 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
19 Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down
20 A Hole in the Bucket
21 House of the Rising Sun
22 Gonna Take My Time
23 Stranger Here
24 Misery Blues
25 I've Been Living with the Blues
- Disc 5 -
1 Empty Pocket Blues
2 Be My Woman
3 Poor Man
4 I Just Can't Keep from Cryin'
5 If I Had Wings
6 Special Delivery
7 Darlin' Baby
8 Let Me Ride
9 The Fox
10 Santy Anno
11 Devilish Mary
12 Another Man Done Gone
13 Children's Trilogy
14 He Had a Long Chain on
15 He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
16 Take This Hammer
17 Ox Driver
18 Hound Dog
19 Carry It Back to Rosie
20 What Month Was Jesus Born In?
21 The Frozen Logger
22 Timber
23 Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom/ Come and Go with Me/ I'm on My Way
The Albums Collection 1954-62 Odetta Holmes, generally simply known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist, who acquired a reputation as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". She was mainly seen as an American folk artist, although her repertoire encompassed blues spirituals and jazz. She was a key figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, and influenced many of the emerging artists of that time, like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Janis Joplin. Martin Luther King Jr. Called her the "queen of American folk music". Beginning her career in musical theatre, she got involved with folk music and became popular club performer in the mid-1950s, and made her first 'live' recording in 1954, eventually enjoying a performing career which lasted over half a century. This great-value 122-track 5-CD set focuses on the formative first decade or so of her recordings career, when she established her reputation and became a high-profile artist. It comprises the complete content of nine of her albums for Tradition, Vanguard and RCA - "The Tin Angel" (with Larry Mohr), "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues", "At the Gate of Horn Tradition", "My Eyes Have Seen Vanguard", "Ballad For Americans and Other American Ballads", "Odetta and The Blues", "Live At Carnegie Hall", "Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin'" and "Odetta At Town Hall. It also includes singles released during the era which were not on albums, notably her 'live' TV performance with Harry Belafonte on "Hole In My Bucket" which was aUK hit in 1961. It's a great showcase for a highly distinctive and influential talent. Odetta Holmes, generally simply known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist, who acquired a reputation as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement".
