The Best of the Vanguard Years (Odetta album)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Best of the Vanguard Years
Type = compilation album
Artist = Odetta


Released = 1999
Recorded =
Genre = Folk, blues
Length = 68:41
Label = Vanguard
Producer = Tom Vickers
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hnfyxqtjldte link]
Last album = "Blues Everywhere I Go"
(1999)
This album = "The Best of the Vanguard Years"
(1999)
Next album = "Livin' with the Blues"
(2000)

"The Best of the Vanguard Years" is a compilation album by American folk singer Odetta, originally released in 1999.

The focus of the material is the music Odetta performed when recording for the Vanguard label.

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.
#"Midnight Special" – 3:21
#"Cotton Fields" (Leadbelly) – 3:21
#"Special Delivery Blues" – 2:37
#"Rambling Round Your City" (Woody Guthrie) – 4:02
#"Cool Water" (Bob Nolan) – 3:04
#"Down on Me" – 2:55
#"I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain/Water Boy" (Robinson) – 6:53
#"Saro Jane" – 2:46
#"Battle Hymn of the Republic" (Julia Ward Howe) – 3:51
#"If I Had a Hammer" (Lee Hays, Pete Seeger) – 1:53
#"Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" – 2:20
#"Meetin' at the Building" – 2:35
#"No More Auction Block" – 2:17
#"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" – 3:22
#"Spoken Introduction: He Had a Long Chain On" (Driftwood) – 6:22
#"Another Man Done Gone" (Hall, Lomax, Lomax, Ruby Pickens Tartt) – 2:31
#"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" – 2:05
#"Make Me a Pallet on the Floor" – 3:21
#"Livin' with the Blues" – 3:39
#"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Cox) – 2:12
#"House of the Rising Sun" – 3:14

Personnel

*Odetta – vocals, guitar
*Bill Lee – bass
*Milt Okun – conductor

Production notes

*Samuel Charters – compilation liner notes
*David Gahr – photography
*Jeff Zaraya – engineer