Roots & Routes

We play music by six singers, each with their very distinct sounds:

Karen Dalton blended blues and folk with a lived-in voice that was often compared to Billie Holiday’s. Singer Odetta became a key figure in the folk revival with her powerful, classically trained voice. The “white singer with the black voice,” Barbara Dane, moved effortlessly between blues, jazz, and folk. Elizabeth Cotten’s vocal notes were a bit off pitch, and together with her unusual guitar skills that created a truly unique sound. Tia Blake, with her sparse and pure vocal style, grew into a cult figure with just one album. Joan Baez is the most well-known vocalist in this lineup, with her clear soprano and distinctive vibrato.

They are all individual, original vocalists who often sang covers and traditionals, but made them so much their own that everything sounds brand new.

Playlist

1.  Karen Dalton – Somehting On Your Mind – 3:23
   (CD: Karen Dalton – In my own time : 50th anniversary edition – 2022)

2. Odetta – Tomorrow is a Long Time – 06:20
   (CD: Odetta Sings Dylan – 2001)

3. Barbara Dane – La Lee too Dum – 03:18
   (CD: Barbara Dane – When I Was a Young Girl – 2016)

4. Tia Blake – Single Girl – 02:30
   (CD: Tia Blake – Folksongs & ballads – 2022)

5. Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train – 2:46
   (CD: Elizabeth Cotton – Freight Train and other … 1990)

6. Barbara Dane – The Hammer Song – 3:06
   (CD: Barbara Dane – Livin’ With the Blues ; On my way – 2014)

7. Odetta – Buked and Scorned – 2:41
   (CD: Odetta – Sings Ballads and Blues – 1996)

8. Joan Baez – Prison Trilogy – 4:24
   (CD: Joan Baez – Come from the Shadows – 1988)

9. Tia Blake – Betty and Dupree – 3:21
   (CD: Tia Blake – Folksongs & ballads – 2022)

10. Karen Dalton – It Hurts Me Too 3:08
    (CD: Karen Dalton – It’s so hard to tell who’s going to love you the best – 2000)

11. Tia Blake – My Father is a Lonely Man – 2:24
    (CD: Tia Blake – Paris and Montreal Demos 1973/1976 – 2018)

12. Karen Dalton – Reason to Believe – 2:24
    (CD: Karen Dalton – 1966 – 2021)

13. Barbara Dane – Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet – 3:43
    (CD: Barbara Dane – When I Was a Young Girl – 2016)

14. Odetta – Baby I’m in the Mood for You – 2:50
    (CD: Odetta Sings Dylan – 2001)

15. Joan Baez – There but for Fortune – 3:15
    (CD: Joan Baez 5 – 1992)

16. Barbara Dane, Lightning Hopkins – Love with a Feeling – 3:03
    (CD: Barbara Dane, Lightning Hopkins – Sometimes I Believe She Love Me – 1996)

17. Elizabeth Cotten – Going Down the Road Feeling Bad – 2:12
    (CD: Elizabeth Cotton – Freight Train and other … 1990)

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