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To Ella

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Length
  
36:58

Release date
  
6 October 1998

Label
  
Silverwolf

Artist
  
Odetta

Producer
  
Blue Öyster Cult

Genres
  
Blues, Folk music

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Released
  
October 6, 1998 April 8, 2003 June 3, 2003

Recorded
  
Kerrville Folk Festival, late 1990s

Similar
  
Odetta albums, Blues albums

To Ella is an album by American folk singer Odetta, released 1998 on Silverwolf Records. Recorded live at the Kerrville Folk Festival, it features traditional songs including "Amazing Grace" and a 27-minute "Ancestors Suite" containing several songs.

Contents

The album is dedicated to the memory of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, who died in 1996 (but doesn't contain any Ella Fitzgerald songs).

The album was re-released twice in 2003, and, confusingly, the CDs had two different names: Odetta (also on Silverwolf Records) and American Folk Pioneer (American Legends).

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Black Woman" – 3:10
  2. "The Fox" – 2:44
  3. Suite: Ancestors: – 27:55
    1. "900 Miles"
    2. "Red Clay Country"
    3. "Another Man Done Gone" (Hall, Lomax, Lomax, Ruby Pickens Tartt)
    4. "No More Cane on the Brazos"
    5. "Pretty Horses"
    6. "Poor Wayfarin' Stranger"
    7. "900 Miles (Reprise)"
    8. "Shenandoah"
    9. "Can't Keep from Cryin'"
    10. "Trouble"
  4. "Ol' Lady Sally" – 1:03
  5. "Amazing Grace" (Newton) – 2:06

Personnel

  • Odetta – vocals

    • Songs

    1Black Woman3:11
    2The Fox2:44
    3Suite: Ancestors 127:55

    References

    To Ella Wikipedia
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