Odetta - Best of the Vanguard Years
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Artist: OdettaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-01-26
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
- Midnight Special
- Special Delivery Blues
- Special Delivery Blues - Odetta
- Rambling Round Your City
- Cool Water
- Down On Me
- I've Been Driving On Bald
- Saro Jane
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- If I Had a Hammer
- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
- Meetin' At the Building
- No More Auction Block for Me
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- Spoken Intro: He Had a Long...
- Another Man Done Gone
- He's Got the Whole World In His Hands
- Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
- Livin' With the Blues
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
- House of the Rising Sun
Music reviews of Best of the Vanguard Years
Music Review: I prefer Odetta the folksinger
Rating: 3 Stars
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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All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Odetta is one of the last American folk singers with ties to the authentic folk tradition. Mentored in the early '50s by Woody Guthrie cronies Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Pete Seeger (whose "If I Had a Hammer" is covered here in a strangely unmelodic manner), as well as Harry Belafonte, Odetta is easily identified by her husky voice--a strong influence on both Joan Armatrading and Tracy Chapman. While with Vanguard, she made a spiritual claim to tunes already associated with Leadbelly ("Midnight Special," "Cotton Fields"), not to mention slave spirituals, pop gospel ("He's Got The Whole World"), and even "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Classic rock fans will recognize "Down on Me," which was later electrified by Janis Joplin. The best tracks here, however, are the four unreleased gems that close the CD, running from terrific jazzy blues and R&B (including the great standard "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out") to her take on "House of the Risin' Sun." --Bill Holdship
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