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    Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), known as Odetta, was an American singer, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement"...
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  • Odetta and the Blues is an album by folk singer Odetta, released in 1962. Odetta had broken ties with her first manager (and close friend) Dean Gitter...
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  • Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues is the debut solo album by American folk singer Odetta. It was released in November 1956 by Tradition Records. Like much...
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  • denotes Grammy Winner 1954 The Tin Angel (with Larry Mohr) 1956 Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues Tradition TLP1010 1957 At the Gate of Horn Tradition TLP1025...
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  • Odetta Sings the Blues is an album by American folk singer Odetta, released in 1968. It is a reissue of the 1962 Riverside release Odetta and the Blues...
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  • The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues is a compilation album by American folk singer Odetta, originally released in 1994. The focus of the material is...
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    (RCA Victor, 1962) Odetta and the Blues (Riverside, 1962) Odetta Sings the Blues (Riverside, 1968) With Herbie Mann Herbie Mann at the Village Gate (Atlantic...
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  • Odetta Sings is a 1970 album by Odetta. It is her only album for the Polydor label. The album was recorded with many well-known session musicians and...
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    shimmering vibrato, and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. AllMusic recognized King as "the single most important...
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  • The Best of Odetta is a compilation album by American folk singer Odetta, released in 1967. "Muleskinner Blues" – 2:50 "If I Had a Ribbon Bow" – 2:50 "Shame...
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    Vaughn"). Monroe apparently never sang the song with Horton's lyrics in concert. Odetta - Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (1956) Lonnie Donegan - Lonnie Donegan...
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    and Belafonte was dubbed the "King of Calypso". Belafonte went on to record in many genres, including blues, American folk, gospel, and more. Odetta sang...
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  • Odetta & Larry was a short-lived blues-folk duo in the mid-1950s. It consisted of Odetta and Lawrence B. Mohr, the former of whom became the more well...
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  • album by American folk singer Odetta, released in 2007. It is a short compilation (10 songs) and contains recordings from the Vanguard Records years. To...
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  • with the Blues is a compilation album by American folk singer Odetta, originally released in 2000. The focus of the material are the songs Odetta performed...
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  • the Collectables re-release The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues. All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted. "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"...
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    styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of "Queen of the Blues". She was also known as "Queen of the Jukeboxes"....
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  • Ballads and Blues may refer to: Ballads & Blues (Milt Jackson album), 1956 Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, 1957 debut album by folk singer Odetta Ballads...
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  • Blues Everywhere I Go is an album by American folk singer Odetta, released in 1999. It was her first new release in more than a decade. Allmusic said in...
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  • two albums on the Tradition label, Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues and At the Gate of Horn and a few tracks from Odetta and Larry LP, The Tin Angle. It...
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  • performed when recording for the Tradition label — 11 tracks from Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues and seven from At the Gate of Horn. All songs Traditional...
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  • Landford & The Landfordaires. As "God's Gonna Cut You Down", it was performed by Odetta on Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (1956), and Johnny Cash on the posthumously...
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  • The Best of the Vanguard Years is a compilation album by American folk singer Odetta, originally released in 1999. The focus of the material is the music...
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  • Odetta Sings Dylan is an album by American folk singer Odetta, issued by RCA Victor in 1965. It consists of covers of Bob Dylan songs. Odetta was a civil...
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  • Hair Hang Down, The Versatile Burl Ives! (1961) Chad Mitchell Trio, At the Bitter End (1962) Odetta, under the title "Roberta," Odetta Sings Folk Songs...
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  • Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin' (category Odetta albums)
    Had Wings" (Traditional) "Darlin' Baby" "Misery Blues" "House of the Rising Sun" (Traditional) Odetta – vocals, guitar Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Leonard Gaskin...
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    performs a concert for the audience while telling stories of her past inspirations, including those of Odetta and Aretha Franklin. The production transferred...
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  • and Norman Dodsworth on drums (both members of Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band with whom Melly was the singer). Odetta as part of the duo Odetta and...
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    folk and blues singer who was part of the American folk music revival in the early 1960s. She recorded the 1973 hit song "Midnight at the Oasis" and has...
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  • Gillespie, The Original Dizzy Gillespie Big Band in Concert (Vocalion, 1963) Little Willie John, Fever (Regency, 1956) Odetta, Odetta and the Blues (Riverside...
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