Odetta: Best of the Vanguard Years - COMPACT DISCS

Description

Title: Best of the Vanguard Years

Artist: Odetta

Label: Vanguard Records

Product Type: COMPACT DISCS

UPC: 015707952224

Genre: Folk

Release Date: 1999-01-26

Number of Discs: 1

Odetta”s recordings for Vanguard are among her best, and this CD offers a healthy 21-track dose, including three unreleased tracks! Includes No More Auction Block for Me and Battle Hymn of the Republic from her Carnegie Hall performances; Southern work songs like Cotton Fields and If I Had a Hammer, and gospel favorites like Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child and Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho. Bill Lee (father of Spike Lee) accompanies on bass.

Tracks:
1.1 Midnight Special
1.2 Special Delivery Blues
1.3 Special Delivery Blues
1.4 Rambling Round Your City
1.5 Cool Water
1.6 Down on Me
1.7 I”ve Been Driving on Bald
1.8 Saro Jane
1.9 Battle Hymn of the Republic
1.10 If I Had a Hammer
1.11 Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
1.12 Meetin” at the Building
1.13 No More Auction Block for Me
1.14 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
1.15 Spoken Intro: He Had a Long
1.16 Another Man Done Gone
1.17 He”s Got the Whole World in His Hands
1.18 Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
1.19 Livin” with the Blues
1.20 Nobody Knows You When You”re Down and Out
1.21 House of the Rising Sun