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Artist
  
Odetta & Larry

Label
  
Universal Music LLC

Release date
  
1954

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Released
  
1954 (LP) July 22, 1993 (CD)

Recorded
  
1953–54, Tin Angel bar, San Francisco

The Tin Angel (1954)
  
Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (1956)

Genres
  
Blues, Folk music, Country blues

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Odetta Sings Ballads a, Looking for a Home, One Grain of Sand, My Eyes Have Seen, It's a Mighty World

John henry by odetta recorded live at the tin angel 1953


The Tin Angel is now the common name for Odetta & Larry's only album, a collection of their recordings released in 1954 as "Odetta and Larry".

Contents

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Background

  • The album is a collection of recordings of Odetta and Larry Mohr from 1953–54; it was partially recorded live at San Francisco's Tin Angel nightclub, but was not called "The Tin Angel" on any 1950s releases. The 1993 CD re-release, however, did have that name, and contained six extra tracks, recorded in March 1954.
  • Like much of Odetta's early work, "The Tin Angel" combines traditional songs (e.g. spirituals) with blues covers. It is often only credited as an Odetta solo album, perhaps because she went on to have the more successful career.

    • Track listing

  • Marked [*]are 1993 CD bonus tracks.
    All songs traditional unless stated.
    1. "John Henry" – 3:09
    2. "Old Cotton Fields at Home" (Leadbetter) – 3:59
    3. "The Frozen Logger" (Haglund, Stevens) – 2:53
    4. "Run, Come See Jerusalem" (Blind Blake) – 2:06
    5. "Old Blue" – 2:36
    6. "Water Boy" – 3:40
    7. "Santy Anno" [1] – 2:18
    8. "I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago"/"The Biggest Thing" – 2:47
    9. "Riding in My Car (Car Song)" – 1:27
    10. "No More Cane on the Brazos" – 2:19
    11. "Payday at Coal Creek" – 3:02
    12. "'Buked and Scorned" – 2:46
    13. "Rock Island Line" (Leadbetter) – 1:47
    14. "Another Man Done Gone" [*] (Hall, Lomax, Lomax, Tartt [2]) – 3:05
    15. "Children Go Where I Send Thee" [*] – 2:35
    16. "I Know Where I'm Going" [*] – 2:10
    17. "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" [*] – 1:55
    18. "Timber" [*] – 3:49
    19. "Wade in the Water" [*] – 1:57

    Album

  • The original vinyl LP was transparent red in color.

    • Songs

    1John HenryOdetta
    2Old Cotton Fields At HomeOdetta
    3The Frozen LoggerOdetta

    References

    The Tin Angel Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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