The Best of Odetta: Ballads & Blues

The Best of Odetta: Ballads & Blues Artist: Odetta
Label: Legacy
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 076637035425
EAN: 0076637035425
ASIN: B000002NRI


Release Date: 1994-07-18

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Tracks:

  1. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
  2. Lowlands
  3. The Fox
  4. Lass Of The Los Countree
  5. Devilish Mary
  6. Take This Hammer
  7. Greensleeves
  8. Deep River
  9. Chilly Winds
  10. If I Had A Ribbon Bow
  11. Shame And Scandal
  12. 'Buked And Scorned
  13. Joshua
  14. Glory, Glory
  15. Been In The Pen
  16. Deep Blue Sea
  17. God's Gonna Cut You Down
  18. Spiritual Triology

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Why, oh why, do they do this to us?.......2004-12-10

OK. I'm annoyed.

Fact 1. The finest female voice in the pop/rock/soul/folk world from the mid 50s through the mid 60s belonged to Odetta.
Fact 2. Her record company knew this, and released heaps and mounds and scores of LPs.
Fact 3. These LPs have been re-released on CD in all manner of configuration.

Therefore, there are CDs that overlap others shamefully, exact same performances appearing here and there.

Why someone doesn't take her work and, as has been for many lesser artists, release 1955-57, 1958-59, or whatever, I cannot imagine. But they haven't. So I'm stuck buying largely duplicate CDs (or burning my own) to get all this early work in digital format.

So, this has much that is available elsewhere, but a few I didn't have before. And some pleasant surprises there. Again, this is fairly early Odetta, before she blossomed into the barn-burner of her glory days, but her tender voice and superlative natural guitar makes it a pleasant collection...as long as you don't have them all already.

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