The Best Of Odetta - Ballads & Blues

Odetta | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 11, 2009)
• Original Release Date: September 30, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Legacy International
• ASIN: B000002NRI
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #351,823 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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18 uplifting spirituals, including He's Got the Whole World in His Hands; Lowlands; Deep River; Greensleeves; Joshua; Glory Glory; Deep Blue Sea , and more.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Why, oh why, do they do this to us?, December 10, 2004

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J. C Clark "eanna" (Overland Park, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best Of Odetta - Ballads & Blues (Audio CD)

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.