Odetta

vocal, guitar, arranger, performer, producer

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Bill Lee (bassist, composer, father of Spike Lee) double bass Another Man Done Gone, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Cool Water, Cotton Fields, Down on Me, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain / Water Boy, If I Had a Hammer, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho, Meetin' at the Building, Midnight Special, No More Auction Block for Me, Rambling Round Your City, Saro Jane, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Special Delivery Blues, Spoken Introduction: He Had a Long Chain On
Mark Carpentieri producer Alabama Bound / Boll Weevil, Bourgeois Blues, Easy Rider, Goodnight Irene, How Long, In the Pines, Jim Crow Blues, Julie Anne Johnson / Whoa Black Buck, Midnight Special, Mother's Blues, New Orleans, Roberta, Rock Island Line, When I Was a Cowboy, You Don't Know My Mind
Seth Farber (musical director to Odetta Holmes) arranger, producer Alabama Bound / Boll Weevil, Bourgeois Blues, Easy Rider, Goodnight Irene, How Long, Jim Crow Blues, Julie Anne Johnson / Whoa Black Buck, Midnight Special, Mother's Blues, Roberta, Rock Island Line, When I Was a Cowboy, You Don't Know My Mind
Ray Fowler (US recording engineer) recording Believe I'll Go, Go Down, Sunshine, Hard, Oh Lord, Hogan's Alley, How Long Blues, Leavin' This Mornin', Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Oh, My Babe, Oh, Papa, Weeping Willow Blues, Yonder Comes the Blues
Dick Wellstood arranger Believe I'll Go, Go Down, Sunshine, Hard, Oh Lord, Hogan's Alley, How Long Blues, Leavin' This Mornin', Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Oh, My Babe, Oh, Papa, Weeping Willow Blues, Yonder Comes the Blues

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Bill Lee (bassist, composer, father of Spike Lee) double bass Another Man Done Gone, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Cool Water, Cotton Fields, Down on Me, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain / Water Boy, If I Had a Hammer, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho, Meetin' at the Building, Midnight Special, No More Auction Block for Me, Rambling Round Your City, Saro Jane, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Special Delivery Blues, Spoken Introduction: He Had a Long Chain On
Mark Carpentieri producer Alabama Bound / Boll Weevil, Bourgeois Blues, Easy Rider, Goodnight Irene, How Long, In the Pines, Jim Crow Blues, Julie Anne Johnson / Whoa Black Buck, Midnight Special, Mother's Blues, New Orleans, Roberta, Rock Island Line, When I Was a Cowboy, You Don't Know My Mind
Seth Farber (musical director to Odetta Holmes) arranger, producer Alabama Bound / Boll Weevil, Bourgeois Blues, Easy Rider, Goodnight Irene, How Long, Jim Crow Blues, Julie Anne Johnson / Whoa Black Buck, Midnight Special, Mother's Blues, Roberta, Rock Island Line, When I Was a Cowboy, You Don't Know My Mind
Ray Fowler (US recording engineer) recording Believe I'll Go, Go Down, Sunshine, Hard, Oh Lord, Hogan's Alley, How Long Blues, Leavin' This Mornin', Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Oh, My Babe, Oh, Papa, Weeping Willow Blues, Yonder Comes the Blues
Dick Wellstood arranger Believe I'll Go, Go Down, Sunshine, Hard, Oh Lord, Hogan's Alley, How Long Blues, Leavin' This Mornin', Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Oh, My Babe, Oh, Papa, Weeping Willow Blues, Yonder Comes the Blues
Orrin Keepnews producer Believe I'll Go, Go Down, Sunshine, Hard, Oh Lord, Hogan's Alley, How Long Blues, Leavin' This Mornin', Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Oh, My Babe, Oh, Papa, Weeping Willow Blues, Yonder Comes the Blues
Richard Crooks (Drummer) drums Bourgeois Blues, Goodnight Irene, Jim Crow Blues, Julie Anne Johnson / Whoa Black Buck, Midnight Special, Mother's Blues, When I Was a Cowboy, You Don't Know My Mind
Shawn Pelton drums Alabama Bound / Boll Weevil, Easy Rider, How Long, Roberta, Rock Island Line
Milt Okun conductor Battle Hymn of the Republic, Down on Me, I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain / Water Boy, Saro Jane
Maynard Solomon producer Pastures of Plenty, Rambling Round Your City, The Great Historical Bum
Kim Wilson harmonica Bourgeois Blues, How Long
Freddy Koella mandolin, violin Roberta, When I Was a Cowboy
Henry Butler (jazz pianist) piano In the Pines, New Orleans
David Seitz producer, recording One Grain of Sand
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown violin Easy Rider

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Nanci Griffith vocal Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos), Wimoweh
Brenn Beck performer Sail Away Lady, The Virgin Mary
Glasgart vocal Waltzing Me All the Way Home
Janis Ian vocal Hymn