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| | Odetta and the Blues | | | Music Artist : | | Odetta | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Obc | | Release Date : | | 1992-02-17 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Hard, Oh Lord
2. Believe I'll Go
3. Oh, Papa
4. How Long Blues
5. Hogan's Alley
6. Leavin' This Morning
7. Oh, My Babe
8. Yonder Comes the Blues
9. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
10. Weeping Willow Blues
11. Go Down, Sunshine
12. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Odetta just misses
Submitted on: 2009-02-09 |
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| This should have been a lot better and I can only blame the producer. If she had limited her back-up to a piano, I think the effect would have been much better. She sounds like she's in front of the Dukes of Dixieland. The blend is horrible; the band sounds like it isn't taking the project seriously. If you can separate her from the back-up band, this may be for you. Personally, it drives me crazy. |
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 Odetta Sings the Blues
Submitted on: 2009-01-25 |
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| Some of my favorite recordings were my two LP recordings of Odetta singing the Blues. This was the first album. The time was the early 1960's and I was living in New York City. Odetta combined everything she had into these old ballads. They spoke to me then and they speak to all of us still. When Odetta passed away recently, I got to thinking about these recordings. My LP records had long since disappeared in various moves. But EBAY provided the solutions where I could once again enjoy Odetta in a digitally remastered disc! |
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When you feel the blues...
Submitted on: 2008-12-15 |
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...when you need to hear greatness, when you need inspiration, when you want to listen to The Best...hell, when you are plain "in need...!"
This album on vinyl competed with Dinah Washington to get me through many a nightmarish Dartmouth exam - in the mid-60's. I already miss Odetta. She will always enrich my life.
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One of my all time favorites for more than 30 years!
Submitted on: 2008-12-03 |
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| I first heard this marvelous album at a "Students for a Democratic Society" fundraising party, in a cool old house in Venice, California, in late 1968. It has haunted me ever since. I've owned it on record, tape and cd, and have played it more times, I think, than nearly any other single album and I still feel just as moved and just as thrilled. Odetta's magnificent voice and spirit will live forever, even tho' this great lady passed today. Thank you, Odetta, for sharing your heart with us. |
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 Ever wonder how Ma Rainey would sound with modern recording?
Submitted on: 2001-01-12 |
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| Its very hard to found personalities who can continue tradition of blues queens of 1920's without failing:Dinah Washington,Koko Taylor and Etta James perhaps did honorable work,their passion matches famous pioneer women who sang at the beggining of century.Billie Holiday occasionaly surprised with clever incorporation of traditional blues in her material ("Long gone Blues").Even early rock star LaVern Baker recorded Bessie Smith tribute that was actually good.But who would expect folk singer Odetta to be another link between famous past and 1960's? Yes,Odetta obviously had a presence,strong voice and passion but she used them mostly for singing folk and spirituals,so this blues album was fabulous surprise - she sound very relaxed and authoritative,as she knows this songs inside out.And yes,she can match with legends like Bessie Smith,Ma Rainey and Ida Cox - her version of "Oh Papa" is simply stunning.Song listed as "Hogan Alley" is actually old Ma Rainey hit "Black Eyed Blues" ("you low-down alligator,I'll catch you soon or later...") and I didnt really like arrangements by D.Wellstood who in attempt to be contemporary somehow fastened up the tempo of legendary songs,so unfortunately Odetta sounds as she was running behind a band occasionaly.The only reason that I gave it 4 out of 5 stars is that "modern" arrangments ruined majestic 1920's "Nobody Knows You When You Are Down And Out",sad and poignant song that should be delievered as deep-feelt truth about life - in hands of this backing musicians it almost ended up as boogie woogie. |
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