Odetta Sings Ballads And Blues
by Odetta
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Odetta Sings Ballads And Blues is ranked as the best album by Odetta.
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Odetta Sings Ballads And Blues track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Odetta Sings Ballads And Blues rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 97/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 37 Music Albums of the 1950s | 1/37 | 20 |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1956 | 97/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | Tamthebam | Top 70 Music Albums of 1956 | 13/70 | 4 |
| 2026 | thekrauter | Top 34 Music Albums of the 1950s | 26/34 | 5 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 40 Music Albums of 1956 | 33/40 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 28 Music Albums of 1956 | 5/28 | 4 |
| 2026 |  bertrandu | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 26/100 | 15 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 69 Music Albums of 1956 | 69/69 | 0 |
| 2026 |  JoaoMoreira | Top 15 Music Albums of the 1950s | 4/15 | 16 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 55 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 298 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/01/2026 20:47 | Olli | 7,932 | 62/100 |
| ! | 07/28/2026 08:09 | cicadelic | 13,991 | 73/100 |
| ! | 04/01/2026 11:05 | Tamthebam | 23,349 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 21% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 73.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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EyeKanFly 08/24/2021 15:58 in What album are you listening to right now?Odetta Sings Ballads And Blues comments
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This woman has Soul and her debut in 1956 should have taken the musical world by storm. (Edited)
JoaoMoreira 01/01/2023 21:54 | #292393 | TOP COMMENT
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Such a raw and intense performer.
It doesn’t sound like it happened in the 50s.
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.
This woman may have been a folk singer but baby she had soul.
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