Odetta

HIGH-DEFINATION PREMIUM VINYL PRESSING FOR SUPER FIDELITY

INCLUDES 2 BONUS TRACKS

This essential LP edition includes the long unavailable album "Odetta at Carnegie Hall", originally released on the Vanguard label in 1960. It was recorded live at that New York venue on April 8, 1960. The material ranged from traditional folk numbers, ballads and lullabies to prison work songs and grandstanding spirituals.

As a result of this long play, Odetta began to be talked about in the same vein as some of her own heroes – greats like Bessie Smith, Lead Belly and Mahalia Jackson. All of these live recordings featured support from Bill Lee on upright bass. (The father of U.S. film director Spike Lee, Bill is another unheralded hero of the 1960s folk revival. He contributed session work to many recordings and helped to expand the parameters of folk’s sound from basic solo acoustic guitar accompaniment.) Odetta’s also joined on the last three numbers by the Choir of the Church of the Master, conducted by Dr. Theodore Stern.

In addition to the original masterpiece, this Vinyl Lovers collector’s edition also includes 2 bonus tracks, captured live in 1962: “Ox Driver” and “Santy Anno.”

PERSONNEL:

ODETTA HOLMES: vocals and acoustic guitar, plus:

Bill Lee (double bass)
Choir of the Church of the Master, conducted by Dr. Theodore Stern (backing vocals on SIDE 2, on 5-7).

Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York City, April 8, 1960.

With the exception of “Ox Driver” and “Santy Anno”: Bill Lee (double bass).
Recorded live in New York City, 1962.

SIDE 1:

01 IF I HAD A HAMMER
02 I’M GOING BACK TO THE RED CLAY COUNTRY
03 WHEN I WAS A YOUNG GIRL
04 THE GALLOWS POLE
05 GOD’S A-GONNA CUT YOU DOWN
06 JOHN RILEY
07 JOHN HENRY
08 OX DRIVER (*)

SIDE 2

01 JOSHUA FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF JERICHO
02 ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES
03 PRETTIEST TRAIN
04 MEETING AT THE BUILDING
05 NO MORE AUCTION BLOCK FOR ME
06 HOLD ON
07 SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD
08 AIN’T NO GRAVE CAN HOLD MY BODY DOWN
09 SANTY ANNO (*)

(*) BONUS TRACKS