Odetta

	Odetta
	Odetta in Amsterdam (1961)
	Algemene informatie
Geboren	Birmingham (Alabama), 31 december 1930
Overleden	New York, 2 december 2008
Land	Verenigde Staten
	(en) IMDb-profiel; (en) Allmusic-profiel;
Portaal	Muziek

Odetta, ook Odetta Holmes, Odetta Felious en Odetta Gordon, (Birmingham (Alabama), 31 december 1930 - New York, 2 december 2008) was een Afro-Amerikaanse actrice, gitariste, componiste en militant activiste voor de burgerrechten. Zij werd "de stem van de beweging voor de burgerrechten" genoemd. Haar repertoire bestaat grotendeels uit Amerikaanse folkmuziek, blues, jazz en negrospirituals. In de jaren 1950 en 1960 was zij een referentie voor de folkmuziek en beïnvloedde zij artiesten, zoals Bob Dylan, Joan Baez en Janis Joplin.

Odetta, Kent State Folk Festival 2006

Biografie

Odetta is opgegroeid in Los Angeles en studeerde daar muziek aan het Los Angeles City College. In 1944-1948 was zij lid van het Hollywood Turnabout Puppet Theatre, samen met Elsa Lanchester. Vanaf 1950 hield zij zich bezig met folk en raakte stilaan bekend in de Verenigde Staten; in de Blue Angel Nightclub (New York), de Hungry I (San Francisco) en de Tin Angel (San Francisco), waar zij in 1954 samen met Larry Mohr de plaat Odetta and Larry opnam bij Fantasy Records. Nadien volgde een solocarrière met Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (1956) en At the Gate of Horn (1957). Odetta Sings Folk Songs was in 1963 een van de meest verkochte folkplaten. Haar bekendheid in Europa is echter verbonden met de internationale hit die ze in 1961 samen met Harry Belafonte scoorde met de traditional "A hole in te bucket".

Zij stierf in december 2008 aan een hartziekte.

Discografie

Odetta (Burg Waldeck-Festival 1968, Germany)

** = Grammy nominatie
*** = Grammy winnaar

Studio & live albums

1954 The Tin Angel (met Larry Mohr)
1956 Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
1957 At the Gate of Horn
1959 My Eyes Have Seen
1960 Ballad For Americans and Other American Ballads
1960 Odetta at Carnegie Hall (live)
1960 Christmas Spirituals
1962 Odetta and The Blues
1962 Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin'
1962 Odetta At Town Hall (live)
1963 One Grain of Sand
1963 Odetta Sings Folk Songs
1964 It's a Mighty World
1964 Odetta Sings of Many Things
1965 Odetta Sings Dylan
1966 Odetta in Japan (live)
1967 Odetta
1968 Odetta Sings the Blues
1970 Odetta Sings
1976 Odetta at the Best of Harlem (live)
1987 Movin' It On
1998 To Ella (live)

Ook uitgebracht als Odetta & American Folk Pioneer

1999 Blues Everywhere I Go **
2001 Looking For a Home
2002 Women in (E)motion
2005 Gonna Let It Shine **

Verzamelplaten

1963 Odetta
1967 The Best of Odetta
1973 The Essential Odetta (live)

dit album is een combinatie van de albums Carnegie Hall & Town Hall

1994 The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues
1999 The Best of the Vanguard Years
2000 Livin' with the Blues
2000 Absolutely the Best
2002 The Tradition Masters
2003 American Folk Pioneer (een heruitgave van To Ella)
2006 Best of the M.C. Records Years 1999-2005
2007 Vanguard Visionaries

Albums met Odetta

1959 Newport Folk Festival
1960 Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall (Harry Belafonte)
Tracks: "I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain", "Water Boy", "There's a hole in the bucket"
1960 Folk Festival At Newport Vol. 2
1962 Folk Song and Minstrelsy
1963 Jimmy Witherspoon
Track: duet on "Lonesome Road."
1964 We Shall Overcome: The March on Washington ***
Tracks: "Freedom Trilogy": "I'm on My Way", "Come and Go with Me" & "Oh Freedom".
1968 A Tribute To Woodie Guthrie Vol. 1 **
Track:"This Land Is Your Land/Narration" (with Arlo Guthrie & co. and Will Geer)
1970 A Tribute To Woodie Guthrie Vol. 2, "Pastures of Plenty"
1972 Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie
1976 Aftertones (Janis Ian)
1987 Songs of the Working People
1987 Greatest Folksingers of the 'Sixties **
Track:"John Henry"
1988 Greenwich Folk Festival
1993 Other Voices, Other Rooms (Nanci Griffith) **
1993 Rare, Live and Classic (Joan Baez)
1994 Freedom is a Constant Struggle
1995 Scenes from a Scene: Greenwich Village
1995 A Folksinger's Christmas
1995 Assassins in the Kingdom (Michael Jonathan)
1996 At Home/Around the World (David Amram & Friends)
1997 Mojo Club: V.4 Light My Fire
1998 Other Voices TOO (Nanci Griffith)
1998 Miriam McKeba-Odetta (Harry Belafonte)
1998 Giants of Folk: Leadbelly/Guthrie/Odetta
1998 Where Have All the Flowers Gone
1998 Original Seeds: Songs that Inspired Nick Cave
1998 Folk Hits of the 1960s
2000 Sounds of a Better World
2000 The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack **
2000 Hyacinths and Thistles (the 6ths)
Track: "Waltzing Me All The Way Home"
2000 Women of Silverworlf
2000 Rollin' Into Memphis: Songs of John Hiatt
2000 Gospel
2000 Route 50: Driving New Routes
2000 Queens of the Blues
2001 Roger McGuinn: Treasures from the Folk Den **
2001 Washington Square Memories
2001 Jazz Ladies
2001 Say Yo' Business
2001 Philadelphia Folk Festival: 40th Anniversary
2001 Say It Out Loud
2001 Folk Music
2001 Sounds of a Better World (Small Voices Calling)
2002 Blues Treasures
2002 This Land Is Your Land
2002 Soul & Inspiration
2003 Broken Hearted Blues
2003 Blues Had a Baby & It's Rock 'n Roll
2003 In the Wind
2003 Beginner's Guide to Folk Music
2003 Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger
2003 Respond II
2003 The Prestige Blues Sampler
2003 Corner of Bleeker and Blues
2003 Best of M.C. Records 1996-2002
2003 Let Freedom Sing
2003 Best of Kerrville Festival
2003 Patriot's Songbook
2003 Blue Box of Blues
2003 Shout Sister Shout: Rosetta Tharpe Tribute
2004 Baby Don't Tear My Clothes (James Cotton)
2004 Ladies Man (Pinetop Perkins) **
2004 My Country Awake: Freedom Compilation
2004 Eric Bibb & Friends
2004 Salute to the Blues: Listening in the Bottle
2005 Folk: The Life, Times & Music Series

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