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Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues

Odetta

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Released: Feb 1996
Label: Trigger Records
Bob Dylan credited Odetta's second album with inspiring him to trade in his electric guitar for an acoustic. So yeah, 1956's Sings Ballads and Blues is a seminal release of the folk revival. In addition to introducing an entire generation of would-be troubadours to Newport standards like "Take This Hammer" and "Another Man Done Gone," Odetta filters the songs through her stripped-down arrangements and fierce wail. Folk is supposedly the sound of the common man, but nobody ever sounded like Odetta.
- Justin Farrar
Odetta - Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues 2010-03-06
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    Santy Anno
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    If I Had a Ribbon Bow
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    Muleskinner Blues
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    Another Man Done Gone
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    Shame and Scandal
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    Jack o' Diamonds
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    'Buked and Scorned
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    Been In the Pen
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    Deep Blue Sea
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    God's Gonna Cut You Down
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    He's Got the Whole World In His Hands
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    Take This Hammer
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    Deep River
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