Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues

The Lark in the Morning by Liam Clancy, Tommy Makem, Family and Friends (1955) A Ballad Singer's Choice by Ed McCurdy (1956) Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (1956) Children's Songs by Ed McCurdy (1958) The Tradition Years: I...

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Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues is the debut solo album by American folk singer Odetta, first released in 1956. Like much of Odetta's early work, Ballads and Blues combines traditional songs (e.g. spirituals ) with blues covers. Some songs...

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...Odetta, originally released in 1994. The focus of the material is the music Odetta performed when recording for the Tradition label - Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (1956) and Odetta at the Gate of Horn '' (1957). Tradition released...

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...a new and unusual emotional potency to her repertoire of simple folk and blues songs. The release of her bestselling 1956 album Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues was a key moment in the folk revival, and a live album, At the Gate of Horn, the...

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...of print. There are so many memorable Odetta moments on record, as stirring now as when they were pressed 30, 40, and 50 years ago. From "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues," her 1956 solo debut, she sounds like a mournful siren who's lost her...

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...in a 1978 Playboy interview. He had heard something "vital and personal" he said, adding: "I learned all the songs on that record, Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues." Born Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1930, her parents left the...

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...deep and soared high, and her songs blended the personal and the political, the theatrical and the spiritual. Her first solo album, "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues," resonated with an audience hearing old songs made new. "The first thing that...

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...the Blue Angel in New York City, where she played for a month and won the admiration of Pete Seeger and Harry Belafonte. Her first album, Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, was released in 1956 and included songs such as Muleskinner Blues and...

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..."Finian's Rainbow," but said she found a stronger calling in the coffeeshops and nightclubs of San Francisco. Her first solo album, "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues," influenced another American folk legend -- Bob Dylan. "The first thing...

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With folk music, I can do my teaching and preaching, my propagandising." Among her notable early works were her 1956 album "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues," which included such songs as "Muleskinner Blues" and "Jack O' Diamonds"; and...

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