Odetta - Sings Ballads & Blues / at Carnegie HallMartin Luther King, Jr.. called Odetta the Queen of American Folk music. She was one of the first female singers to forge the bond between traditional Folk music and more contemporary forms, such as the Blues, Gospel music and protest songs. With her strong, booming voice and spare guitar, she sang songs about the lives of blue collar workers and convicts, housewives and peasants, blacks and whites. This quintessential release includes two of Odetta's

ranging across the composer's career

Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon

" Other featured cuts include "A Mansion Over the Hilltop

Lark Quartet performs premieres by John Harbison

Johannes Ockeghem (c

the regularly award winning Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

joins them LAC Boyz on the title track Nothing in Particular

Her friends convince her that a vacation is long overdue and that they should check out this gift

It is a substantial and thoroughly enthralling showcase for her unique talent

the Sonata by Rebecca Clarke

of orchestral works by the great Russian composer

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