Gonna Let It Shine
Released: Oct 18, 2005
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Released: Oct 18, 2005
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Recorded live at Fordham University in New York City for a public radio broadcast, this spotlights the spirituals in Odetta's repertoire, including such standards as "Down by the Riverside,"...
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American Folk Music Pioneer
Released: Jun 3, 2003
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Released: Jun 3, 2003
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American Folk Music Pioneer is actually Odetta's To Ella album, a live appearance recorded at the Kerriville Folk Festival in the late '90s, with the track sequence switched around, but otherwise...
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The Tradition Masters
Released: Sep 3, 2002
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Released: Sep 3, 2002
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While Odetta is usually lumped in with other revival artists, she actually began performing in the late '40s and had recorded her first album by 1956, a couple of years before the folk boom...
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Ballad for Americans and Other American Ballads/Odetta at Carnegie Hall
Released: Apr 9, 2002
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Released: Apr 9, 2002
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This CD, issued under license from Vanguard by Italy's Universe label (on their Comet imprint), is one of the handsomest re-releases of its kind ever to turn up on CD. The sound is fine -- and it's...
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Looking for a Home
Released: Aug 28, 2001
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Released: Aug 28, 2001
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Harry Belafonte once wrote of blues singer Odetta: "Few possess the fine understanding of a song's meaning which transforms it from a melody into a dramatic experience." Pete Seeger heard this...
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Absolutely the Best
Released: Sep 19, 2000
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Released: Sep 19, 2000
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Absolutely the Best is a series title for mid-priced compilations released by Fuel 2000, but it sets a standard that the Odetta number is unable to meet, even though the material the album contains...
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