Beautiful Star [PA]

Performer: Odetta
Engineer: Todd Lockwood; Jon Fausty; Lincoln Clapp
Distributor: Allegro Corporation (Dist

Notes: Personnel: Odetta (vocals, acoustic guitar); Lincoln Goines, Bill Lee (acoustic bass, upright bass); Jeff Salisbury (drums, snare drum); Jeff Salisbury (snare drum, percussion); Carol Steele (percussion). Liner Note Authors: Odetta; Rachel Faro. Recording information: Sound Ideas, New York, NY; White Crow Audio, Burlington, VT. BEAUTIFUL STAR was originally recorded and released in 1989 as CHRISTMAS SPIRITUALS, but since the CD reissue of her similarly named (and more widely known) 1960 album has created marketplace confusion, the 1989 album has been reissued with a new title and cover art. A typically elegant and deeply felt collection of standards and original songs, BEAUTIFUL STAR is both a fine holiday album and an essential listen for Odetta fans no matter the season.

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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