Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist

Odetta Holmes, generally simply known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist, who acquired a reputation as 'The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement'. She was mainly seen as an American folk artist, although her repertoire encompassed blues spirituals and jazz. She was a key figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, and influenced many of the emerging artists of that time, like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Janis Joplin. Martin Luther King Jr. called her the 'queen of American folk music'. Beginning her career in musical theatre, she got involved with folk music and became popular club performer in the mid-1950s, and made her first 'live' recording in 1954, eventually enjoying a performing career which lasted over half a century. This great-value 122-track 5-CD set focuses on the formative first decade or so of her recordings career, when she established her reputation and became a high-profile artist. It comprises the complete content of nine of her albums for Tradition, Vanguard and RCA - 'The Tin Angel' (with Larry Mohr), 'Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues', 'At the Gate of Horn Tradition', 'My Eyes Have Seen Vanguard', 'Ballad For Americans and Other American Ballads', 'Odetta and The Blues', 'Live At Carnegie Hall', 'Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin'' and 'Odetta At Town Hall. It also includes singles released during the era which were not on albums, notably her 'live' TV performance with Harry Belafonte on 'Hole In My Bucket' which was a UK hit in 1961. It's a great showcase for a highly distinctive and influential talent.

Track Listing

• John Henry
• Old Cotton Fields at Home 
• The Frozen Logger 
• Run, Come See Jerusalem 
• Old Blue
• Water Boy
• Santy Anno
• I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago/The Biggest Thing
• Riding in My Car
• No More Cane on the Brazos
• Payday at Coal Creek
• Buked and Scorned
• Rock Island Line 
• Santy Anno
• If I Had a Ribbon Bow
• Muleskinner Blues
• Another Man Done Gone
• Shame and Scandal
• Jack o' Diamonds
• Buked and Scorned
• Easy Rider
• Joshua
• Hound Dog
• Glory, Glory
• Alabama Bound
• Been in the Pen
• Deep Blue Sea

• God's Gonna Cut You Down
• Spiritual Trilogy: Oh, Freedom, Come and Go With Me, I'm on My Way
• He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
• Sail Away Ladies, Sail Away
• The Gallows Pole
• Lowlands
• The Fox
• Maybe She Go
• The Lass from the Low Countree
• Timber
• Deep River
• Chilly Winds
• Greensleeves
• Devilish Mary
• All the Pretty Little Horses
• The Midnight Special
• Take This Hammer
• Poor Little Jesus
• Bald Headed Woman
• Motherless Children
• I Know Where I'm Going
• The Foggy Dew
• I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain/Water Boy
• Ox-Driver Song
• Down on Me

• Saro Jane
• Three Pigs
• No More Cane on the Brazos
• Jumpin' Judy
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Ballad for Americans
• This Land
• On Top of Old Smokey
• Hush Little Baby
• Dark as a Dungeon
• Great Historical Bum
• Payday at Coal Creek
• Going Home
• Pastures of Plenty
• Hard, Oh Lord
• Believe I'll Go
• Oh, Papa
• How Long Blues
• Hogan's Alley
• Leavin' This Morning
• Oh, My Babe
• Yonder Comes the Blues

• Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
• Weeping Willow Blues
• Go Down, Sunshine
• Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
• If I Had a Hammer
• Red Clay Country
• When I Was a Young Girl
• Gallows Pole
• God's A-Gonna Cut You Down
• John Riley
• John Henry
• Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
• All The Pretty Little Horses
• Prettiest Train
• Meeting at the Building
• No More Auction Block
• Hold On
• Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
• Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down
• A Hole in the Bucket
• House of the Rising Sun
• Gonna Take My Time
• Stranger Here
• Misery Blues
• I've Been Living with the Blues

• Empty Pocket Blues
• Be My Woman
• Poor Man
• I Just Can't Keep from Cryin'
• If I Had Wings
• Special Delivery
• Darlin' Baby
• Let Me Ride
• The Fox
• Santy Anno
• Devilish Mary
• Another Man Done Gone
• Children's Trilogy
• He Had a Long Chain On
• He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
• Take This Hammer
• Ox Driver
• Hound Dog
• Carry It Back to Rosie
• What Month Was Jesus Born In'
• The Frozen Logger
• Timber
• Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom/ Come and Go with Me/ I'm on My Way

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Folk

Language: English

Run Time: 355 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/04/18

UPC: 824046751227