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The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues

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The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues
Greatest hits album by
Released1994
Recorded1956–1957
GenreFolk, blues
Length50:46
LabelTradition
Odetta chronology
Movin' It On
(1987)
The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues
(1994)
To Ella
(1998)
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The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues is a compilation album by American folk singer Odetta, originally released in 1994.

The focus of the material is the music Odetta performed when recording for the Tradition label — Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (1956) and Odetta at the Gate of Horn (1957). Tradition released The Best of Odetta on LP with a slightly different track list in 1967.

It was also re-released on CD on the Collectables label in 2006.

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Track listing

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All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

  1. "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" – 1:59
  2. "Lowlands" – 2:41
  3. "The Fox" – 1:53
  4. "The Lass from the Low Countree" (John Jacob Niles) – 4:40
  5. "Devilish Mary" – 1:57
  6. "Take This Hammer" (Ledbetter) – 3:33
  7. "Greensleeves" – 2:49
  8. "Deep River" – 3:00
  9. "Chilly Winds" – 2:43
  10. "If I Had a Ribbon Bow" (Huey Prince, Lou Singer) – 2:43
  11. "Shame and Scandal" (Sir Lancelot) – 2:23
  12. "'Buked and Scorned" – 2:40
  13. "Joshua" – 1:54
  14. "Glory, Glory" – 2:13
  15. "Been in the Pen" – 2:32
  16. "Deep Blue Sea" – 3:02
  17. "God's Gonna Cut You Down" – 1:51
  18. Spiritual Trilogy" – 6:05

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