Blues Everywhere I Go is an 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...

, released in 1999. It was her first new release in more than a decade.

Allmusic said in their review: "... time doesn't appear to have affected her interpretive skills or the range and quality of her voice, which remains one of the most remarkable instruments in American folk and blues music to date."

Blues Everywhere I Go was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

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 at the 42nd Grammy Awards. It was her first nomination after over 50 years of recording.

Track listing

1. "Blues Everywhere I Go" (Scott Shirley) – 4:53
2. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:33
3. "Dink's Blues" (Dink Johnson
   Dink Johnson
   Ollie "Dink" Johnson was a dixieland jazz pianist, clarinetist, and drummer.-Background:Dink Johnson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, younger brother of the bass player/bandleader William Manuel Johnson. He worked around Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana before moving to the western United...
   
   ) – 4:48
4. "Unemployment Blues" – 4:05
5. "TB Blues" (Victoria Spivey
   Victoria Spivey
   Victoria Spivey was an American blues singer and songwriter. She is best known for her recordings of "Dope Head Blues" and "Organ Grinder Blues", and Spivey variously worked with her sister, Addie "Sweet Pease" Spivey, and with Bob Dylan, Lonnie Johnson, Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Clarence...
   
   ) – 4:06
6. "Trouble Everywhere/I've Been Living With the Blues" (Brownie McGhee
   Brownie McGhee
   Walter Brown McGhee was a Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.-Life and career:...
   
   , Wallace) – 4:01
7. "Can't Afford to Lose My Man" (Ernest Lawlers
   Ernest Lawlers
   Ernest Lawlers was an American blues guitarist, vocalist, and composer, also known as Little Son Joe.- Life and career :Lawlers was born in Hughes, Arkansas, United States...
   
   ) – 2:56
8. "Homeless Blues" (Porter Grainger) – 5:58
9. "Oh, Papa" (Davide Elman) – 3:01
10. "Look the World Over" (Lawlers) – 3:37
11. "Careless Love/St. Louis Blues" (Handy, Koenig, Leadbelly
    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....
    
    ) – 7:50
12. "Hear Me Talking to You" – 3:15
13. "Rich Man Blues" (Lowe) – 4:41
14. "W.P.A. Blues" (Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences...
    
    ) – 4:12
15. "You Gotta Know How" (Sippie Wallace
    Sippie Wallace
    Sippie Wallace was an American singer-songwriter. Her early career in local tent shows gained her the billing "The Texas Nightingale". Between 1923 and 1927, she recorded over 40 songs for Okeh Records, many written by herself or her brothers, George and Hersal Thomas...
    
    ) – 3:38

Personnel

• 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...
  
   – 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...
  
  
• Dr. John
  Dr. John
  Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...
  
  – piano, vocals
• Paul Ossola – bass
• Shawn Pelton – drums
• Larry Eagle – drums
• Seth Farber – piano
• Tom "Bones" Malone – sax

Production notes

• Produced and arranged by Seth Farber
• Engineered by Fred Guarino
• Photography by Robert Corwin