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Released
  
1994

Length
  
50:46

Artist
  
Odetta

Label
  
Tradition Records

Recorded
  
1956-1957

The Best of Odetta Ballads and Blues (1994)
  
To Ella (1998)

Release date
  
1994

Genres
  
Blues, Folk music

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The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues is a compilation album by American folk singer Odetta, originally released in 1994.

Contents

The focus of the material is the music Odetta performed when recording for the Tradition label — Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (1956) and Odetta at the Gate of Horn (1957). Tradition released The Best of Odetta on LP with a slightly different track list in 1967.

It was also re-released on CD on the Collectables label in 2006.

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

  1. "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" – 1:59
  2. "Lowlands" – 2:41
  3. "The Fox" – 1:53
  4. "The Lass from the Low Countree" (John Jacob Niles) – 4:40
  5. "Devilish Mary" – 1:57
  6. "Take This Hammer" (Ledbetter) – 3:33
  7. "Greensleeves" – 2:49
  8. "Deep River" – 3:00
  9. "Chilly Winds" – 2:43
  10. "If I Had a Ribbon Bow" (Huey Prince/Lou Singer) – 2:43
  11. "Shame and Scandal" (Sir Lancelot) – 2:23
  12. "'Buked and Scorned" – 2:40
  13. "Joshua" – 1:54
  14. "Glory, Glory" – 2:13
  15. "Been in the Pen" – 2:32
  16. "Deep Blue Sea" – 3:02
  17. "God's Gonna Cut You Down" – 1:51
  18. Spiritual Trilogy" – 6:05

Personnel

  • Odetta – vocals, guitar
  • Bill Lee – bass

    • Songs

    1He's Got the Whole World in His Hands2:00
    2Lowlands2:42
    3The Fox1:53

    References

    The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues Wikipedia
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