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In case you haven't noticed, the glorious voice of Odetta still rings true at the turn of the century. Following her acclaimed 1999 comeback Blues Everywhere I Go, the remarkable folk-revival veteran offers this engaging and inspired homage to Leadbelly, who passed away just as Odetta was beginning her own storied career. Clearly, Odetta admires the diversity of Huddie Ledbetter's repertoire, as she herself has made her living interpreting everything from folk ballads and 12-bar blues standards to protest songs, work songs, children's songs, and gospel. What makes this project so successful are the creative and wholly original arrangements she gives these tunes. "Goodnight Irene" and "Rock Island" are reinvented as funky piano-driven slices of New Orleans blues-boogie, with Odetta's languid phrasing perfectly contrasting the underlying rhythms, while "In the Pines" is reborn in a gospel vein with Henry Butler on piano. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (on violin) and Kim Wilson (on harp) have guest spots, but Odetta commands the show throughout, understanding and inhabiting these songs as only she can, and clearly conveying their pain, bitterness, and world-weariness. --Marc Greilsamer
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Tracks| 1 | Goodnight Irene | | 2 | You Don't Know My Mind | | 3 | MOther's Blues | | 4 | When I Was A Cowboy | | 5 | In The Pines | | 6 | How Long | | 7 | Bourgeois Blues | | 8 | Alabama Bound/Boll Weevil | | 9 | Roberta | | 10 | New Orleans | | 11 | Jim Crow Blues | | 12 | Rock Island Line | | 13 | Julie Anne Johnson/Who Black Buck | | 14 | Easy Rider | | 15 | Midnight Special |
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