Odetta – Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin' LP (180g, Bonus Tracks)
Pickup currently unavailable at New Inventory 2235 Fern Street
Odetta – Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin' LP (180g, Bonus Tracks)
New Inventory 2235 Fern Street
Pickup currently unavailable
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United States
UK reissue of this album from the Blues/Folk legend. Commencing her career in 1944, Odetta would draw her repertoire from the vast catalogs of folk, blues, jazz and spirituals and turn in commanding performances on all of them. Her blues career effectively started in 1962, shortly after her switch of record labels to RCA. There she would record SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE CRYIN', her label debut, and whilst there is a distinct folk feel to some of the material, all of it is injected with the blues. And if there is also a hint of jazz, that too is deliberate, with the likes of Dick Well stood (piano), Buster Bailey (clarinet), Vic Dickenson (trombone), Buck Clayton (trumpet), Tedell Saunders (harmonica), Leonard Gaskin and Abdul Ahmed Malik (bass) and Panama Francis (drums) providing musical accompaniment. Of all her albums, this is probably the most satisfying and therefore the most compelling. Odetta always thought of her voice as her 'instrument', and here, with a range that runs from coloratura to baritone, it is allowed to shine.