Sings Ballads & Blues: The Classical Recordings [Original recording remastered]

Odetta | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Empire Musicwerks
• ASIN: B0007CYEHQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,153 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Santy Anno

2. If I Had a Ribbon Bow

3. Muleskinner Blues

4. Another Man Done Gone

5. Shame and Scandal

6. Jack O' Diamonds

7. 'Buked and Scorned

8. Easy Rider

9. Joshua

10. Hound Dog

11. Glory, Glory

12. Alabama Bound

13. Been in the Pen

14. Deep Blue Sea

15. God's Gonna Cut You Down

16. Spiritual Trilogy: Oh Freedom/Come and Go With Me/I'm on My Way

17. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands [*]

18. Take This Hammer [*]

19. Deep River [*]

20. Chilly Winds [*]

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Queen of the folk blues remastered nicely, February 9, 2005

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Southern Slim "A Music Lover" (Memphis, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sings Ballads & Blues: The Classical Recordings (Audio CD)

This is the original song order for those of you that remember the original 1958 LP with some added bonus cuts from 1960 (from the Gate Of Horn LP I believe)and it's got the original funky red cover. The bonus here is the nice remastering job - sounds as good as the original vinyl did way back when, but I guess that's the point in this respectful reissue. It's also got the original liner notes from the original LP and some new updated notes. Very nice package.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heartfelt, May 6, 2005

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C. DIMOND (Gardner, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sings Ballads & Blues: The Classical Recordings (Audio CD)

This is high art crossed with superb performance and excellent production. Theatrical in ambition, beautifully produced recording. I presume Bill Lee is bassist here as he would be on the stereo Gate of Horn a year later, but he's down in the instrumental mix of this mono recording and the result is an integration of bass and guitar that is a much smoother sound than on the Gate of Horn recording. This has the quality, that nebulous magic that inspires emulation.

5 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars painfully bad, August 25, 2006

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Kenneth M. Sarocky (san francisco, ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sings Ballads & Blues: The Classical Recordings (Audio CD)

I've been listening to Odetta occasionally for 35 years now, and I'm amazed how bad the music is. She's a triple-threat: can't sing, can't play the guitar, and has not a scrap of understanding of most of the songs. Her reputation is based on glowing second-hand reports from other 60's folkies. If you want to hear these songs performed with passion and skill, buy Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, or Mahalia Jackson's Greatest Hits. Odetta is strictly for crazy hippie-girl fanatics.