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Disc 1

1. Midnight Special
2. Special Delivery Blues
3. Special Delivery Blues
4. Rambling Round Your City
5. Cool Water
6. Down On Me
7. I've Been Driving On Bald
8. Saro Jane
9. Battle Hymn of the Republic
10. If I Had a Hammer
11. Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
12. Meetin' At the Building
13. No More Auction Block for Me
14. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
15. Spoken Intro: He Had a Long...
16. Another Man Done Gone
17. He's Got the Whole World In His Hands
18. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
19. Livin' With the Blues
20. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
21. House of the Rising Sun

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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD

I prefer Odetta the folksinger
Submitted on: 2004-04-20

If you own the Essential Odetta you do not need this one. The Essential is the full version of her glorious live performance; on this we have 8 cuts from that CD, and not necessarily the best ones.

The other studio work ranges from pretty good to wonderful, but it is only 9 cuts. Odetta is a breathtaking performer who too often allows herself to perform second-rate material. With the best stuff, she's unbeatable. Saro Jane is a favorite song of mine; she is just fantastic on that one. And her performance of Woody's Rambling Round Your City is a winner. But I find her Battle Hymn rather dated, and the backup chorus by Milt Okun suffers from the same flaws the backup chorus on the coeval Cisco Houston LP does. Cool Water also fails.

And personally, the final four performances fail to make my cut. All performed much better by others, all sounding contrived and obligatory, all very much uninteresting to me.

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