Odetta Holmes: Amerikansk sångare

Hennes musikaliska repertoar sträckte sig från amerikansk folkmusik till blues, jazz och andlig musik. Under 1950- och 1960-talet var hon en av de stora på den amerikanska folkmusik-scenen och hon inspirerade under den epoken stora artister som Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples och Janis Joplin.

Odetta
Odetta 1961.
Födelsenamn	Odetta Holmes
Pseudonym(er)	Odetta Gordon
Född	31 december 1930 Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Död	2 december 2008 (77 år) New York City, USA
Genrer	Folk, blues, spirituals
Roll	Sångare
År som aktiv	1944 – 2008
Skivbolag	Fantasy Records, Tradition Records, Vanguard Records, RCA Records, Original Blues Classics
Artistsamarbeten	Lead Belly, Janis Joplin, The Staple Singers, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt, Harry Belafonte
Utmärkelser Library of Congress Living Legend War Resisters League Peace Award National Medal of Arts

• 1954 The Tin Angel (med Larry Mohr)
• 1956 Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
• 1957 At the Gate of Horn
• 1959 My Eyes Have Seen
• 1960 Ballad For Americans and Other American Ballads
• 1960 Christmas Spirituals
• 1962 Odetta and The Blues
• 1962 Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin'
• 1963 One Grain of Sand
• 1963 Odetta and Larry
• 1963 Odetta Sings Folk Songs
• 1964 It's a Mighty World
• 1964 Odetta Sings of Many Things
• 1965 Odetta Sings Dylan
• 1967 Odetta
• 1970 Odetta Sings
• 1987 Movin' It On
• 1988 Christmas Spirituals (new recording)
• 1999 Blues Everywhere I Go **
• 2001 Looking For a Home

• 1960 Odetta at Carnegie Hall
• 1962 Town Hall
• 1966 Odetta in Japan
• 1973 The Essential Odetta
• 1976 Odetta at the Best of Harlem
• 1998 To Ella
• 2002 Women in (E)motion
• 2005 Gonna Let It Shine

• 1963 Odetta
• 1967 The Best of Odetta
• 1973 The Essential Odetta (live)
• 1994 The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues
• 1999 The Best of the Vanguard Years
• 2000 Livin' with the Blues
• 2000 Absolutely the Best
• 2002 The Tradition Masters
• 2003 American Folk Pioneer
• 2006 Best of the M.C. Records Years 1999-2005
• 2007 Vanguard Visionaries

 

 

• 1959 Newport Folk Festival
• 1960 Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall (Harry Belafonte)
  Tracks: "I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain", "Water Boy", "There's a hole in the bucket"
• 1960 Folk Festival At Newport Vol. 2
• 1962 Folk Song and Minstrelsy
• 1963 Jimmy Witherspoon
  Track: duet on "Lonesome Road."
• 1964 We Shall Overcome: The March on Washington ***
  Tracks: "Freedom Trilogy": "I'm on My Way", "Come and Go with Me" & "Oh Freedom".
• 1968 A Tribute To Woodie Guthrie Vol. 1 **
  Track:"This Land Is Your Land/Narration" (with Arlo Guthrie & co. and Will Geer)
• 1969 The Original Hits Of Right Now Plus Some Heavies From The Motion Picture "Easy Rider"
  Track:"Ballad of Easy Rider"
• 1970 A Tribute To Woodie Guthrie Vol. 2, "Pastures of Plenty"
• 1972 Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie
• 1976 Aftertones (Janis Ian)
• 1987 Songs of the Working People
• 1987 Greatest Folksingers of the 'Sixties **
  Track:"John Henry"
• 1988 Greenwich Folk Festival
• 1993 Other Voices, Other Rooms (Nanci Griffith) **
• 1993 Rare, Live and Classic (Joan Baez)
• 1994 Freedom is a Constant Struggle
• 1995 Scenes from a Scene: Greenwich Village
• 1995 A Folksinger's Christmas
• 1995 Assassins in the Kingdom (Michael Jonathan)
• 1996 At Home/Around the World (David Amram & Friends)
• 1997 Mojo Club: V.4 Light My Fire
• 1998 Other Voices TOO (Nanci Griffith)
• 1998 Miriam Makeba-Odetta (Harry Belafonte)
• 1998 Giants of Folk: Leadbelly/Guthrie/Odetta
• 1998 Where Have All the Flowers Gone
• 1998 Original Seeds: Songs that Inspired Nick Cave
• 1998 Folk Hits of the 1960s
• 2000 Sounds of a Better World
• 2000 The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack **
• 2000 Hyacinths and Thistles (the 6ths)
  Track: "Waltzing Me All The Way Home"
• 2000 Women of Silverworlf
• 2000 Rollin' Into Memphis: Songs of John Hiatt
• 2000 Gospel
• 2000 Route 50: Driving New Routes
• 2000 Queens of the Blues
• 2001 Roger McGuinn: Treasures from the Folk Den **
• 2001 Washington Square Memories
• 2001 Jazz Ladies
• 2001 Say Yo' Business
• 2001 Philadelphia Folk Festival: 40th Anniversary
• 2001 Say It Out Loud
• 2001 Folk Music
• 2001 Sounds of a Better World (Small Voices Calling)
• 2002 Blues Treasures
• 2002 This Land Is Your Land
• 2002 Soul & Inspiration
• 2003 Broken Hearted Blues
• 2003 Blues Had a Baby & It's Rock 'n Roll
• 2003 In the Wind
• 2003 Beginner's Guide to Folk Music
• 2003 Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger
• 2003 Respond II
• 2003 The Prestige Blues Sampler
• 2003 Corner of Bleeker and Blues
• 2003 Best of M.C. Records 1996-2002
• 2003 Let Freedom Sing
• 2003 Best of Kerrville Festival
• 2003 Patriot's Songbook
• 2003 Blue Box of Blues
• 2003 Shout Sister Shout: Rosetta Tharpe Tribute
• 2004 Baby Don't Tear My Clothes (James Cotton)
• 2004 Ladies Man (Pinetop Perkins) **
• 2004 My Country Awake: Freedom Compilation
• 2004 Eric Bibb & Friends
• 2004 Salute to the Blues: Listening in the Bottle
• 2005 Folk: The Life, Times & Music Series

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