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| | One Grain of Sand | | | Music Artist : | | Odetta | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Vanguard Records | | Release Date : | | 1997-04-15 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Sail Away, Ladies
2. Moses, Moses
3. Midnight Special
4. Rambler-Gambler
5. Cotton Fields
6. Roll on, Buddy
7. Ain't No Grave
8. Special Delivery Blues
9. Rambling Round Your City
10. Boll Weevil
11. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
12. She Moved Through the Fair
13. Cool Water
14. One Grain of Sand
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Resonates with beauty
Submitted on: 2009-04-02 |
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I have been collecting Odetta's work for years, but since her passing last year I ordered a few cds I did not have. Odetta was a unique gift to music lovers and a historian of sorts of Spirituals and American folk music. This cd is a wonderful collection of soulful and deeply moving songs.
I recommend it to persons new to her music as well as established fans. |
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excellent recording, RIP Odetta
Submitted on: 2008-12-03 |
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The recording is excellent, and more.
This is a note, however, on the MP3 version. Be warned that (at this writing) the track info is scrambled. Easily corrected using autotag features in many players, but just a bit disconcerting to discover (though this was not the first mp3 collection I've found scrambled in this way). |
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One of Her Finest
Submitted on: 2005-12-19 |
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This CD represents Odetta's most important vanguard release; I can't believe that I appear to be the first to review this glorious album.
I ordered this CD as soon as it became available. I have loved the original vinyl album for so long that I had literally worn it out. Odetta is regarded as something of an anomaly in the folk world, as there seem to be few African-American musical artists who have concentrated their craft on folk music. That's a shame, since many songs that have historically been labeled "spirituals" have more in common with folk than Blues or Gospel. Many of the songs presented in this wonderful album are in fact spirituals in the African-American tradition. Moses, Moses and Sail Away Ladies are two fine examples, and were chosen to open this recording. Midnight Special, the well-known public domain song about the Underground Railroad, has been recorded by hundreds of artists in many different genres, including folk, pop, rock, bluegrass and country. I have heard many artists perform this song, and the most effective rendition for me has always been Odetta's. In the hands of a lesser artist, songs like Cotton Field can come off as trite or exploitative; this version by Odetta evokes serenity and makes you want to hop a train and visit home, wherever home may be.
For folk purists, there is her outstanding reading of Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies, and she transfers the standard Cool Water, a song made famous by the western group Sons of the Pioneers, into a folk masterpiece.
A friend of mine saw Odetta perform just a few months ago (September 2005) and said she still delivers a great show, oozing class, taste and pure musicianship. Yep, that's Odetta.
Highly recommended. |
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