At the Gate of Horn is the second solo

Solo (music)

In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...

 album by American

United States

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 folk singer

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 Odetta

Odetta

Odetta Holmes, known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals...

, first released in 1957. It was named for the Gate of Horn

Gate of Horn

For writings, including the Greek myth involving a "Gate of horn", see Gates of horn and ivory.The Gate of Horn was a 100-seatfolk music club, located in the basement of the Rice Hotel on the southeast corner of Chicago Avenue and Dearborn Street, on the near north side of Chicago, Illinois, in the...

 club in Chicago.

Odetta is joined by bassist Bill Lee. Although the titled suggests it is a live recording, it is actually a studio recording - recorded at the Esoteric Studios in New York City.

At the Gate of Horn was re-released on CD by Rykodisc

Rykodisc

Rykodisc Records is an American record label. It is owned by Warner Music Group, operates as a unit of WMG's Independent Label Group and is distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance.-Company history:...

 in 1997 and by Empire Musicwerks in 2006. Some tracks are included on the Collectables re-release The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues

The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues

The Best of Odetta: Ballads and Blues is a compilation album by American folk singer Odetta, originally released in 1994.The focus of the material is the music Odetta performed when recording for the Tradition label — Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues and Odetta at the Gate of Horn...

.

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

1. "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
   He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
   "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" is a traditional American spiritual. It was first published in the paperbound hymnal Spirituals Triumphant, Old and New, in 1927. In 1933, it was collected by Frank Warner from the singing of Sue Thomas in North Carolina...
   
   " – 1:53
2. "Sail Away Ladies, Sail Away" – 2:22
3. "The Gallows Pole" – 2:52
4. "Lowlands" – 2:36
5. "The Fox
   The Fox (folk song)
   The Fox is a traditional folk song. It is also the subject of at least two picture books, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night: an old song, illustrated by Peter Spier and Fox Went out on a Chilly Night, by Wendy Watson...
   
   " – 1:49
6. "Maybe She Go" (Delaplain) – 1:47
7. "The Lass from the Low Countree" (John Jacob Niles
   John Jacob Niles
   John Jacob Niles was an American composer, singer, and collector of traditional ballads. Called the "Dean of American Balladeers", Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Joan Baez, Burl Ives, and Peter, Paul and Mary, among others,...
   
   ) – 4:33
8. "Timber" (Gary) – 3:11
9. "Deep River
   Deep River (song)
   "Deep River" is an anonymous spiritual of African American origin. It has been sung in several films, including the 1929 film version of Show Boat, although it was not used in the original show...
   
   " – 3:00
10. "Chilly Winds" – 2:43
11. "Greensleeves
    Greensleeves
    "Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca.A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in September 1580 as "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves". It then appears in the surviving A Handful of...
    
    " – 2:50
12. "Devilish Mary" – 1:52
13. "All the Pretty Little Horses
    All the Pretty Horses (lullaby)
    "All the Pretty Little Horses" is a traditional African American lullaby from the southern United States.-Meaning:...
    
    " – 3:01
14. "The Midnight Special
    Midnight Special (song)
    "Midnight Special" is a traditional folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South. The title comes from the refrain which refers to the Midnight Special and its "ever-loving light" ....
    
    " (Huddie Ledbetter
    Leadbelly
    Huddie William Ledbetter was an iconic American folk and blues musician, notable for his strong vocals, his virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the songbook of folk standards he introduced....
    
    ) – 2:36
15. "Take This Hammer
    Take This Hammer
    "Take This Hammer" is a prison work song. It was collected by John and Alan Lomax. The song "Nine Pound Hammer" has a few phrases in common with this song, and the same Roud number. "Swannanoa Tunnel" is similar, and this group of songs are referred to as 'hammer songs' or 'roll songs'...
    
    " (Ledbetter) – 3:25

Personnel

• Odetta Holmes
  Odetta
  Odetta Holmes, known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals...
  
   – vocals, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Bill Lee
  Bill Lee (musician)
  William James Edwards "Bill" Lee III is an American musician. He has played the bass for many artists including Cat Stevens, Harry Belafonte, Chad Mitchell Trio, Gordon Lightfoot, Aretha Franklin, Odetta, Simon and Garfunkel, and Bob Dylan...
  
   – bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...