Odetta At The Town Hall

Product Description

Having begun her career on the coffeehouse circuit in the '50s, singer-guitarist Odetta Gordon was always at her best in front of an appreciative audience, and this 16-track, 52-minute album recorded at New York City's Town Hall in late 1962 is among the highlights in her long career.
Backed only by her own acoustic guitar and the solid yet unobtrusive bass work of Bill Lee--filmmaker Spike Lee's father--Odetta performs folk standards, blues classics, work songs, and spirituals, all with a quiet, proud reserve rather akin to that of Paul Robeson. While there's a playful undertone to a couple of the blues tunes, the stirring passion of the set's pointed closer, "Freedom Trilogy", reminds listeners of the strong ties between the collegiate folk revival of the early '60s and the concurrent civil rights movement. While never stridently political, the songs on ODETTA AT TOWN HALL definitely get their point across.

Track list

1. Let Me Ride
2. Ox Driver
3. Hound Dog
4. Carry It Back To Rosie
5. What Month Was Jesus Born In
6. Frozen Logger
7. Timber
8. Oh Freedom/Come And Go With Me/I'm On My Way <span class="grey">Freedom Trilogy medley</span>
9. Fox
10. Santy Anno
11. Devilish Mary
12. Another Man Done Gone
13. Children's Trilogy
14. He Had A Long Chain On
15. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
16. Take This Hammer