Odetta Sings Ballads And Blues (studio album) by Odetta

Odetta Sings Ballads And Blues by Odetta
Year: 1956
Overall rank: 5,434th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 38 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1956 (25th)
Award Top albums of the 1950s (155th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,434th)
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Odetta - Sings Ballads & Blues: Early Album Collection [New CD] UK - Import
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Odetta : Best Of-Ballads & Blues Folk 1 Disc CD
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Sings Ballads and Blues [Bonus Tracks] by Odetta (CD, Feb-2005, VI)
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74/100 (from 38 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 73.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.2.

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From 01/01/2023 21:54
Such a raw and intense performer.
It doesn’t sound like it happened in the 50s.
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From 03/06/2022 03:31
I can say this about a lot of people, but it is as true of Odetta as anyone-- without her music in my childhood I would not be the person I am... "The Freedom Trilogy" taught a generation of us that the trick to living unafraid is not to have nothing to fear, but rather to refuse to be deterred by fear.
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From 01/25/2016 16:37
This woman may have been a folk singer but baby she had soul.
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