Odetta (1930 – 2008)

[zhermen]

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Одетта (полное имя – Одетта Холмс / Odetta Holmes*) родилась 1 декабря 1930 года в Бирмингеме, штат Алабама, и получила классическое музыкальное образование. Однако известности она добилась, исполняя блюз и фолк, в том числе тюремный фольклор и спиричуэлс. Cчиталась «голосом борьбы за гражданские права» (The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement) и сыграла важную роль в движении «фолк-возрождения» начала 1960-х годов.

Оказала большое влияние на многие ключевые фигуры того времени, включая Боба Дилана, Джоан Баэз, Мэвис Стейплз и Дженис Джоплин. В интервью 1978 года Боб Дилан заявил, что дебютный альбом Одетты «Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues» (1956) был «первой вещью, благодаря которой я заинтересовался фолком».
Пик ее карьеры пришелся на 60-е, когда Одетта выпустила 15 альбомов, а кроме того, пела на множестве демонстраций и акций против расовой сегрегации. Ее выступление на ступенях Мемориала Линкольна в 1963 году представлял сам Мартин Лютер Кинг.

Одетта также снималась в кино и на телевидении, а выступать продолжала даже в последние два года жизни, когда была вынуждена передвигаться на инвалидной коляске.



Odetta - With God On Our Side

from 'Odetta Sings Dylan' (1965)

lyrics

Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.

Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.

Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.

Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.

I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.

But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

Odetta - Hit Or Miss

Odetta - Hit Or Miss


Can’t you see
I gotta be me
Ain’t nobody
Just like this
I gotta be me
Baby hit or miss

Sitting here
All by myself
Trying to be
Everybody else

Can’t you see I gotta be me
Ain’t nobody just like this
I gotta be me
Baby hit or miss

Look at you sitting there
All by yourself
Listening to everybody
Everybody saying be everybody else

Can’t you see
You gotta be thee
Aint nobody
Just like you
You gotta be you
Baby hit or miss

Oh you see
I gotta be me
Ain’t nobody
Just like this
I gotta be me
Baby hit or miss

Sitting here
I’m all by myself
I’m trying to be
Everybody else
But now I see
I gotta be me
Ain’t nobody
Just like this
I gotta be me

Odetta : The Times They Are A-Changin'

Odetta : The Times They Are A-Changin'

from 'Odetta Sings Dylan' (1965)

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

Odetta - Nobody knows you when you're down and out

Odetta - Nobody knows you when you're down and out


Once I lived the life of a millionaire
Spending my money, I didn't care
I carried my friends out for a good time
Bying bootleg liquor, champagne and wine

Then I began to fall so low
I didn't have a friend, and no place to go
So if I ever get my hand on a dollar again
I'm gonna hold on to it till them eagle's green

Nobody knows you when you down and out
In my pocket not one penny
And my friends I haven't any
But If I ever get on my feet again
Then I'll meet my long lost friend
It's mighty strange, without a doubt
Nobody knows you when you down and out
I mean when you down and out

When you're down and out
Not one penny
And my friends I haven't any
Well I felt so low
Nobody wants me round their door
Without a doubt,
No man can use you when you down and out
I mean when you down and out

Odetta - Jim Crow Blues

Odetta - Jim Crow Blues

"Jim Crow Blues"
Performed by Odetta Holmes (2003)
originally performed by Lead Belly (1930)
From the movie: Lightning In a Bottle: A One Night History of the Blues
concert: New York's Radio City Music Hall (February 2003)
Director : Antoine Fuqua
Executive Producer: Martin Scorsese
Music Director: Steve Jordan
Producer: Alex Gibney & Margaret Bodde
(lyrics: Lead Belly version)

Bunk Johnson told me too, This old Jim Crowism dead bad luck for me and you
I been traveling, i been traveling from shore to shore
Everywhere I have been I find some old Jim Crow

One thing, people, I want everybody to know
You're gonna find some Jim Crow, every place you go

Down in Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia's a mighty good place to go
And get together, break up this old Jim Crow

I told everybody over the radio
Make up their mind and get together, break up this old Jim Crow

I want to tell you people something that you don't know
It's a lotta Jim Crow in a moving picture show

I'm gonna sing this verse, I ain't gonna sing no more
Please get together, break up this old Jim Crow



Odetta - This Little Light Of Mine

With spoken intro - music starts at 1:22. From 'Gonna Let It Shine, A Concert For The Holidays' (2005), recorded by WFUV radio at Fordham University, New York

History of "This Little Light of Mine"
"This Little Light of Mine" made it into the American folk music tradition when it was found and documented by John Lomax in 1939. Even though it's become a great anthem of the Civil Rights movement, it's not believed to have hailed from slave spirituals. It was, however, adapted for the Civil Rights movement by Zilphia Horton (who also taught Pete Seeger "We Shall Overcome") and other activists.
The lyrics to "This Little Light of Mine" are very simple and repetitive, lending nicely to the folk tradition, making it an easy song to remember and sing along with. Only one line per verse changes: This little light of mine, Everywhere I go, All in my house, and Out in the dark. The rest of the verses repeat "I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine."
Several popular folk artists have recorded "This Little Light of Mine" through the years. Among them are versions by Pete Seeger and Odetta (source: http://folkmusic.about.com)



Odetta - Midnight Special

lyrics

Well you wake up in the morning, hear the ding dong ring,
you go a marching to the table, you see the same old thing.
Baby all I wanna tell ya, I'm like a pork in the pan and if you
say a thing about it, you're in trouble with the man.

Let the midnight special shine a light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me.
Yes let the midnight special shine a light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me

If you ever go to Houston then you better walk alright,
You better not stagger and you better not fight.
'Cause sheriff Benson will arrest you, he'll carry you on down,
and if the jury finds you guilty you're penitentiary bound.

So let the midnight special shine a light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me.

A yonder comes Miss Rosey, how I wonder did you know,
Well I know about her apron, and the dress she wore,
Umbrella on her shoulder piece of paper in her hand,
She goes a walkin' to the captain says I'm losin' my man.

So let the midnight special shine it's light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's light on me

Odetta - Santy Anno

Odetta - Santy Anno


We're sailin' 'cross the river from Liverpool,
Heave away, Santy Anno.
Around Cap Horn to 'Frisco Bay,
'Way out in Californio.
Chorus:
So, heave her up and away we'll go.
Heave away, Santy Anno.
Heave her up and away we'll go.
'Way out in Californio.

There's plenty of gold, so I've been told.
Heave away, Santy Anno.
Plenty of gold so I've been told.
'Way out in Californio.

Chorus

Well, back in the days of forty-nine.
Heave away, Santy Anno.
Back in the days of the good old times.
'Way out in Californio.

Бонус (во второй части ролика Одетта и Джонни Кэш поют дуэтом)

Odetta and Johnny Cash

Odetta on "The Johnny Cash Show," August 30, 1969. The first song she performs is based on a Negro "field blues" song known simply as "Black Woman," then duets with Cash on "Shame And Scandal In The Family," which was written by a calypso singer Sir Lancelot, in the 40s.

Tennessee Ernie Ford and Odetta - What A Friend We Have

Tennessee Ernie Ford and Odetta - What A Friend We Have

An Exclusive TEF Enterprises MemoryClip From The Ford Show Archives

Маленькая - менее минуты - запись с фестиваля в Ньюпорте. Сразу переключить на quality 240p, иначе ничего не слышно

Odetta playing at Newport festival




* - возможно, это должно кое-что подсказать тем поклонникам "Темной Башни", что увлекаются проведением фанатских кастингов



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My Eyes Have Seen (1959)
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Comments

[manera negra]

Я бы сказала, гранд-дама.
Слов нет, да и что скажешь, только слушать...

If God's on our side... аж слезу вышибло

[zhermen]

да, God's on our side меня в ее исполнении даже больше зацепило, чем в изначальном Дилановском.
Она обалденная.

[manera negra]