Odetta Holmes
amerikansk sångare
Odetta Holmes, känd som Odetta, född 31 december 1930 i Birmingham, Alabama, död 2 december 2008 i New York, var en amerikansk sångare, skådespelare, gitarrist, låtskrivare och aktivist för mänskliga rättigheter. Hennes musikaliska repertoar sträckte sig från amerikansk folkmusik till blues, jazz och andlig musik. Under 1950- och 1960-talet var hon en av de stora på den amerikanska folkmusik-scenen och hon inspirerade under den epoken stora artister som Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples och Janis Joplin.
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Födelsenamn | Odetta Holmes |
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Pseudonym(er) | Odetta Gordon |
Född | 31 december 1930 Birmingham, Alabama, USA |
Död | 2 december 2008 (77 år) New York City, USA |
Genrer | Folk, blues, spirituals |
Roll | Sångare |
År som aktiv | 1944 – 2008 |
Skivbolag | Fantasy Records, Tradition Records, Vanguard Records, RCA Records, Original Blues Classics |
Artistsamarbeten | Lead Belly, Janis Joplin, The Staple Singers, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt, Harry Belafonte |
Utmärkelser
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Studioalbum
redigera- 1954 The Tin Angel (med Larry Mohr)
- 1956 Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
- 1957 At the Gate of Horn
- 1959 My Eyes Have Seen
- 1960 Ballad For Americans and Other American Ballads
- 1960 Christmas Spirituals
- 1962 Odetta and The Blues
- 1962 Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin'
- 1963 One Grain of Sand
- 1963 Odetta and Larry
- 1963 Odetta Sings Folk Songs
- 1964 It's a Mighty World
- 1964 Odetta Sings of Many Things
- 1965 Odetta Sings Dylan
- 1967 Odetta
- 1970 Odetta Sings
- 1987 Movin' It On
- 1988 Christmas Spirituals (new recording)
- 1999 Blues Everywhere I Go **
- 2001 Looking For a Home
Livealbum
redigera- 1960 Odetta at Carnegie Hall
- 1962 Town Hall
- 1966 Odetta in Japan
- 1973 The Essential Odetta
- 1976 Odetta at the Best of Harlem[2]
- 1998 To Ella
- 2002 Women in (E)motion
- 2005 Gonna Let It Shine
Samlingsalbum
redigera- 1963 Odetta
- 1967 The Best of Odetta
- 1973 The Essential Odetta (live)
- 1994 The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues
- 1999 The Best of the Vanguard Years
- 2000 Livin' with the Blues
- 2000 Absolutely the Best
- 2002 The Tradition Masters
- 2003 American Folk Pioneer
- 2006 Best of the M.C. Records Years 1999-2005
- 2007 Vanguard Visionaries
Uppträdanden
redigera- 1959 Newport Folk Festival
- 1960 Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall (Harry Belafonte)[3]
Tracks: "I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain", "Water Boy", "There's a hole in the bucket" - 1960 Folk Festival At Newport Vol. 2
- 1962 Folk Song and Minstrelsy
- 1963 Jimmy Witherspoon
Track: duet on "Lonesome Road." - 1964 We Shall Overcome: The March on Washington ***
Tracks: "Freedom Trilogy": "I'm on My Way", "Come and Go with Me" & "Oh Freedom". - 1968 A Tribute To Woodie Guthrie Vol. 1 **
Track:"This Land Is Your Land/Narration" (with Arlo Guthrie & co. and Will Geer) - 1969 The Original Hits Of Right Now Plus Some Heavies From The Motion Picture "Easy Rider"
Track:"Ballad of Easy Rider" - 1970 A Tribute To Woodie Guthrie Vol. 2, "Pastures of Plenty"
- 1972 Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie
- 1976 Aftertones (Janis Ian)
- 1987 Songs of the Working People
- 1987 Greatest Folksingers of the 'Sixties **
Track:"John Henry" - 1988 Greenwich Folk Festival
- 1993 Other Voices, Other Rooms (Nanci Griffith) **
- 1993 Rare, Live and Classic (Joan Baez)
- 1994 Freedom is a Constant Struggle
- 1995 Scenes from a Scene: Greenwich Village
- 1995 A Folksinger's Christmas
- 1995 Assassins in the Kingdom (Michael Jonathan)
- 1996 At Home/Around the World (David Amram & Friends)
- 1997 Mojo Club: V.4 Light My Fire
- 1998 Other Voices TOO (Nanci Griffith)
- 1998 Miriam Makeba-Odetta (Harry Belafonte)
- 1998 Giants of Folk: Leadbelly/Guthrie/Odetta[4]
- 1998 Where Have All the Flowers Gone
- 1998 Original Seeds: Songs that Inspired Nick Cave
- 1998 Folk Hits of the 1960s
- 2000 Sounds of a Better World
- 2000 The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack **
- 2000 Hyacinths and Thistles (the 6ths)
Track: "Waltzing Me All The Way Home" - 2000 Women of Silverworlf
- 2000 Rollin' Into Memphis: Songs of John Hiatt
- 2000 Gospel
- 2000 Route 50: Driving New Routes
- 2000 Queens of the Blues
- 2001 Roger McGuinn: Treasures from the Folk Den **
- 2001 Washington Square Memories
- 2001 Jazz Ladies
- 2001 Say Yo' Business
- 2001 Philadelphia Folk Festival: 40th Anniversary
- 2001 Say It Out Loud
- 2001 Folk Music
- 2001 Sounds of a Better World (Small Voices Calling)[5]
- 2002 Blues Treasures
- 2002 This Land Is Your Land
- 2002 Soul & Inspiration
- 2003 Broken Hearted Blues
- 2003 Blues Had a Baby & It's Rock 'n Roll
- 2003 In the Wind
- 2003 Beginner's Guide to Folk Music
- 2003 Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger
- 2003 Respond II[6]
- 2003 The Prestige Blues Sampler
- 2003 Corner of Bleeker and Blues
- 2003 Best of M.C. Records 1996-2002
- 2003 Let Freedom Sing
- 2003 Best of Kerrville Festival
- 2003 Patriot's Songbook
- 2003 Blue Box of Blues
- 2003 Shout Sister Shout: Rosetta Tharpe Tribute
- 2004 Baby Don't Tear My Clothes (James Cotton)
- 2004 Ladies Man (Pinetop Perkins) **
- 2004 My Country Awake: Freedom Compilation
- 2004 Eric Bibb & Friends
- 2004 Salute to the Blues: Listening in the Bottle
- 2005 Folk: The Life, Times & Music Series
Filmografi
redigeraFilm/program titel | Information | År |
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Cinerama Holiday | Film | 1955 |
Lamp Onto My Feet | TV | 1956 |
Tonight with Belafonte | TV/Musikal (Emmy Award) | 1959 |
Toast of the Town | TV[7] | 1960 |
Sanctuary | Dramafilm[8] | 1961 |
Have Gun – Will Travel episod 159/226: "The Hanging of Aaron Gibbs" |
TV drama[9] | 1961 |
Les Crane Show | TV/Pratshow | 1965 |
Festival | dokumentärfilm[10] | 1967 |
Live from the Bitter End | TV - konsert | 1967 |
Clown Town starring Odetta & Bobby Vinton |
NBC Music Special | 1968 |
The Dick Cavett Show | TV/pratshow | 1969 |
The Johnny Cash Show | TV/musikal | 1969 |
The Virginia Graham Show | TV[11] | 1971 |
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | TV-film | 1974 |
Soundstage: Just Folks with Odetta, Tom Paxton, Josh White, Jr. and Bob Gibson |
TV - Concert Special | 1980 |
Ramblin': with Odetta | TV - Concert Special | 1981 |
Chords of Fame | doc.[12] | 1984 |
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade | 1989 | |
Boston Pops with Odetta, Shirley Verrett and Boys Choir of Harlem |
TV - konsert | 1991 |
Tommy Makem & Friends | TV - konsert | 1992 |
The Fire Next Time | TV film[13] | 1993 |
Turnabout The Story of the Yale Puppeteers |
dokumentärfilm[14] | 1993 |
Odetta: Woman In (E)motion | German TV - Concert Special | 1995 |
Peter, Paul and Mary: Lifelines | TV[15] | 1996 |
National Medal of Arts and Humanities Presentations | C-Span TV | 1999 |
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack | Dramafilm[16] | 2000 |
21st Annual W.C. Handy Blues Awards | Awards ceremony[17] | 2000 |
Songs for a Better World | TV - konsert | 2000 |
Later... with Jools Holland with Odetta och Bill Wyman & His Rhythm Kings |
BBC-TV | 2001 |
Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher | TV pratshow | 2001 |
Late Night with David Letterman | TV pratshow | 2001 |
Pure Oxygen | TV - pratshow | 2002 |
Newport Folk Festival | TV - Concert Special | 2002 |
Janis Joplin: Pieces of My Heart | BBC-TV biografi | 2002 |
Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Protest |
doc.[18] | 2003 |
Tennessee Ernie Ford Show | TV musikal (Re-Broadcast) | 2003 |
Ralph Bunch: An American Odyssey | PBS-TV biografi | 2003 |
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin | PBS-TV biografi | 2003 |
Visionary Awards Presentation | PBS-TV Award Presentation | 2004 |
Lightning in a Bottle - Salute to the Blues | doc. | 2004 |
No Direction Home | doc. | 2005 |
Talking Bob Dylan Blues | BBC-TV konsert | 2005 |
Odetta: Blues Diva | PBS-TV konsert | 2005 |
Odetta: Viss Notiek | Latvian TV Weekly Journal | 2006 |
A Tribute to the Teachers of America | PBS-TV Special: Concert at The Town Hall, New York, New York Odetta sings a children’s song medley of "Rock Island Line/Here We Go Looptie-Lou/Bring Me Little Water Sylvie" |
2007 |
The Tavis Smiley Show | PBS-TV Discussion and performance of the song "Keep on Movin' It On" | 25 Jan 2008 |
Mountain Stage HD: John Hammond, Odetta, and Jorma Kaukonen | PBS-TV Concert Special | 2008 |
Odetta Remembers | BBC Four intervju och konsertmontage, 30 min[19] | 6 Feb 2009 |
The Yellow Bittern | A Biopic of Liam Clancy of The Clancy Brothers | 2009 |
Referenser
redigera- ^ läs online, www.loc.gov .[källa från Wikidata]
- ^ ”Odetta”. Arkiverad från originalet den 15 april 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080415211324/http://www.akh.se/odetta/flc5007.htm. Läst 26 april 2010.
- ^ ”harbel”. Arkiverad från originalet den 4 januari 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070104002523/http://www.akh.se/harbel/lso6007.htm. Läst 26 april 2010.
- ^ cduniverse
- ^ amazon
- ^ respondproject
- ^ imdb
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- ^ ”BBC Four Programmes: Odetta Remembers”. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hd376. 23 Feb 2009
Externa länkar
redigera- Wikimedia Commons har media som rör Odetta Holmes.
- Odetta Holmes på Internet Movie Database (engelska)