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| | Odetta Sings Dylan | | | Music Artist : | | Odetta | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Drg | | Release Date : | | 2008-09-02 | | Store Price : | | $17.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $17.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Baby, I'm in the Mood for You
2. Long Ago, Far Away
3. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
4. Tomorrow Is a Long Time
5. Masters of War
6. Walkin' Down the Line
7. Times They Are A-Changin'
8. With God on Our Side
9. Long Time Gone
10. Mr. Tambourine Man
11. Blowin' in the Wind [*]
12. Paths of Victory [*]
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 Odetta Sings Dylan
Submitted on: 2009-01-31 |
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| Odetta has the richest and warmest voice I've ever heard. This is a CD that should be a part of the listening library of every school. Young people should know the part she played in civil rights history in America. They also should be exposed to some Dylan classics. |
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Two Legends Unchained
Submitted on: 2008-12-09 |
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I have been listening to and occasionally attending concerts by the recently departed Odetta for over forty years and she, despite her various illnesses in her latter years, was still able to bring that big strong voice to her work as she did when I first heard her. A big strong strumming guitar added to the pleasure. Odetta was the consummate female interpreter of the old ballads that denoted the struggle of blacks and other at work and play in slavery times and later in wage slavery times. Religious sentiments about a better life in the hereafter because this life so is hell are also interwoven into some these ballads. It is hard today to get the full impact of that genre but I always noticed that audiences still responded to her gentle prodding to sing along.
There is an old expression-"What goes around, comes around". Nothing profound in that but it does point out that Odetta was very aware of her roots, of her debts to earlier folk singers and the influences of her then contemporary artists in the folk revival of the 1960's. On this CD she puts that fantastic contralto voice to work early on singing the songs of a man slated to be a folk legend in the field. There have been many stories since come to light about singers "stealing" material from each other during those 1960's times. There is no theft here. Odetta stands on her own with her interpretation of this material.
That said, Odetta does not try, like many an urban folkie of the 1960's and others to imitate, Dylan's, manner and mistakes a point that I made in another review in reference to her tribute to an early blues singer, Leadbelly, but hones here own renditions and gives them her own interpretation. That is the true way to honor one's fellow musicians. So what is good here? "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", "Tomorrow Is Such A Long Time" and, of course, a powerful rendition of the anti-war anthem "Masters Of War". But really, this is one time when the entire album is good, a time when a legendary songwriter and a legendary singer meld together
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Odetta's Best and a great Dylan cover album.
Submitted on: 2005-03-03 |
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| Wow... What an album! From the opening bars of the celebratory 'Baby I'm in the Mood for You' through all the tracks including her chilling reading of 'Masters of War, Odetta's interpretations of Dylan's songs are spellbinding. If you do not know this album give it a listen. If you are a Dylan or Odetta fan go out and get yourself a copy. A true classic, don't ignore it! |
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One of the Best Dylan Cover Albums
Submitted on: 2004-05-29 |
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| An awesome album. Odetta's version of "Don't Think Twice" is one of the best Dylan covers I have ever heard. |
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 The gospel Tracks (songs of Bob dylan)
Submitted on: 2002-02-14 |
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| Those of you who know Bob Dylan's songs will appreciate this one. Some of these takes just grab you and don't let go till the end and then you'll need to hear them again. WOW! Bob's songs are trully adaptable and hearing them sung this way is a treat. |
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