Odetta at Carnegie Hall

Odetta at Carnegie Hall
Live album by Odetta
Released	1960
Recorded	Carnegie Hall
Genre	Folk, blues
Label	Vanguard
Odetta chronology
Ballad For Americans and Other American Ballads (1959) Odetta at Carnegie Hall (1960) Christmas Spirituals (1960)

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Allmusic	[1]

Odetta at Carnegie Hall is a live album by American folk singer Odetta, recorded on April 8, 1960 and released later that year. It is now out of print.

The Choir of the Church of the Master accompanies Odetta on the last four songs.

At Carnegie Hall is also available along with At Town Hall from the same era, on Vanguard's double-LP The Essential Odetta, but the CD version of that release omits two songs from the At Carnegie Hall LP and 8 songs from the At Town Hall LP. It was also re-released on CD along with Ballad For Americans and Other American Ballads on the Italian label Universe. It is difficult to locate as an import.^[2]

Track listing

1. "If I Had a Hammer" (Pete Seeger, Lee Hays)
2. "Red Clay Country"
3. "When I Was a Young Girl"
4. "Gallows Pole" (Traditional)
5. "God's A-Gonna Cut You Down"
6. "John Riley"
7. "John Henry" (Traditional)
8. "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho" (Traditional)
9. "All The Pretty Little Horses"
10. "Prettiest Train"
11. "Meeting at the Building"
12. "No More Auction Block"
13. "Hold On"
14. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional)
15. "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down"

Personnel

• Odetta – vocals, guitar
• Bill Lee – bass
• in the last four tracks, assisted by the Choir of the Master, Dr. Theodore Stent, Choir Director

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Allmusic entry for compilation of Ballad for Americans & At Carnegie Hall.