Odetta at Town Hall is a live 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...

, recorded at Town Hall, New York, NY, on April 5, 1963 and first released later that year.

At Town Hall is also available along with At Carnegie Hall from the same era, on Vanguard's double-LP The Essential Odetta

The Essential Odetta

The Essential Odetta is a live album by American folk singer Odetta, originally released on LP in 1973.The original double-LP The Essential Odetta included the live performances At Town Hall and At Carnegie Hall, but the CD version of that release omits ten songs from the original total of both LPs...

, but the CD version of that release omits eight songs from the Town Hall LP and two songs from the Carnegie Hall LP.

Track listing

1. "Let Me Ride" (Traditional) – 1:34
2. "The Fox" (Traditional) – 1:51
3. "Santy Anno
   Santianna
   "Santianna", also known as "Santiana", "Santy Anna", "Santayana", "Santiano", "Santy Anno" and other variations, is a sea shanty relating to the Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. Supposedly, the last whaler to return to New Bedford hauled in to this tune...
   
   " (Traditional) – 2:35
4. "Devilish Mary" (Traditional) – 1:56
5. "Another Man Done Gone" (Hall
   Vera Hall
   Adell Hall Ward, better known as Vera Hall was an American folk singer, born in Livingston, Alabama, United States. She is best known for her song "Trouble So Hard" .-Biography:...
   
   , Lomax
   Alan Lomax
   Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of...
   
   , Lomax
   John Lomax
   John Avery Lomax was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist and folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk songs...
   
   , Ruby Pickens Tartt) – 2:33
6. "Children's Trilogy" – 2:07
7. "He Had a Long Chain On" (Driftwood) – 6:26
8. "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...
   
   " (Traditional) – 2:06
9. "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'...
   
   " (Traditional) – 3:57
10. "Ox Driver" – 3:07
11. "Hound Dog" (Traditional) – 4:44
12. "Carry It Back to Rosie" (Traditional) – 3:27
13. "What Month Was Jesus Born In?" (Traditional) – 2:22
14. "The Frozen Logger" (Haglund, Stevens) – 2:52
15. "Timber" (Gary, Gray, White) – 3:26
16. "Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom/ Come and Go With Me/ I'm on My Way" (Traditional) – 7:29

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...