Christmas Spirituals

Performer: Odetta
Artist: Lincoln Goines
Distributor: Welk

Notes: Personnel: Odetta (vocals, acoustic guitar); Bill Lee, Lincoln Goines (acoustic bass); Jeff Salisbury (snare drum); Carol Steele (percussion). Engineers: Lincoln Clapp, Todd Lockwood, Jon Fausty. Recorded at White Crow Audio, Burlington, Vermont and Sound Ideas, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Odetta. Personnel: Odetta (vocals, guitar); Bill Lee (acoustic bass). Odetta's husky voice is often stunning, both in her a cappella performances and her songs with accompaniment. She says these songs are traditional spirituals, neither purely African nor American, but songs that emerged from the sufferings of slavery. Powerful stuff. ~ Dennis MacDonald

Taking inspiration from classic blues singers and folk troubadours of the 1930s and '40s and predating the folk boom of the '60s, Odetta remains one of the most important yet often overlooked artists of the American musical tradition. Her unique, politically charged fusion of blues, traditional Negro spirituals, and American folk songs was a profound influence on a generation of artists from Bob Dylan and Joan Baez to Tracy Chapman. Odetta continued to perform well after her heyday, remaining both fiercely political and artistically engaging.

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