Biography

Taking inspiration from classic blues singers and folk troubadours of the 1930s and '40s and predating the folk boom of the '60s, Odetta remains one of the most important yet often overlooked artists of the American musical tradition. Her unique, politically charged fusion of blues, traditional Negro spirituals, and American folk songs was a profound influence on a generation of artists from Bob Dylan and Joan Baez to Tracy Chapman. Odetta continued to perform well after her heyday, remaining both fiercely political and artistically engaging.

Top Tracks

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• Ancestors: 900 Miles/red Clay Country/another Man Done Gone/no ...

• Another Man Done Gone

• Beautiful Star

• Chilly Winds

• Deep Blue Sea

• Down On Me

• Easy Rider

• Gallows Tree (gallows Pole)

• Glory, Glory

• God's Gonna Cut You Down

• He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

• Jack O' Diamonds

• Jack O'diamonds

• Lowlands

• Midnight Special

• Santy Anno

• Saro Jane

• Spiritual Trilogy

• Take This Hammer

• The Fox

• The Gallows Pole

Discography

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• Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays

  M.C. Records

  2005

• Odetta [Silverwolf]

  Silverwolf Records

  2003

• Women in (E)motion

  Tradition & Moderne

  2002

• Looking for a Home

  M.C. Records

  2001

• Blues Everywhere I Go

  M.C. Records

  1999

• To Ella

  Silverwolf Records

  1998

• As Blue as They Can Be

  Who's Who in Jazz

  1991

• Movin' It On

  Rose Quartz

  1987

• Odetta Sings

  Polydor

  1970

• Odetta [1967]

  Verve Folkways

  1967

• Odetta Sings Dylan

  Bmg Camden

  1965

• One Grain of Sand

  Vanguard

  1963

• Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin'

  1962

• Odetta and the Blues

  Legacy

  1962

• At Town Hall

  Vanguard

  1962

• Odetta at Carnegie Hall

  1960

• Ballad for Americans and Other American Ballads

  Vanguard

  1960

• My Eyes Have Seen

  Vanguard

  1959

• Sings Ballads and Blues

  Tradition/Rykodisc / Rykodisc

  1956

• The Tin Angel

  Original Blues Classics

  1954