Movin' It On
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Movin' It On is a live album by American
American folk music
American folk music is a musical term that encompasses numerous genres, many of which are known as traditional music or roots music. Roots music is a broad category of music including bluegrass, country music, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American...

 folk
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....

 singer 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 1987. It is a recording of a concert at The Wisconsin Union Theatre, Madison, Wisconsin and is her first release in 12 years. It is out of print.

Track listing

  1. "Give Me Your Hand"
  2. "Sail Away, Ladies"
  3. Suite, Ancestors 1:
    1. "Roll On Buddy"
    2. "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'...

      "
    3. "Lowlands"
    4. "Deep Blue Sea"
    5. "Michael Rowed The Boat Ashore
      Michael Row the Boat Ashore
      Michael, Row the Boat Ashore is an African-American spiritual. It was first noted during the American Civil War at St. Helena Island, one of the Sea Islands of South Carolina....

      "
  4. Suite, Ancestors 2:
    1. "Ol' Howard's dead & Gone"
    2. "House of the Rising Sun
      The House of the Rising Sun
      "The House of the Rising Sun" is a folk song from the United States. Also called "House of the Rising Sun" or occasionally "Rising Sun Blues", it tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans...

      "
    3. "When I Was A Young Girl "
    4. "Ol' Howard "
    5. "Irene, Goodnight
      Goodnight, Irene
      "Goodnight, Irene" or "Irene, Goodnight," is a 20th century American folk standard, written in 3/4 time, first recorded by American blues musician Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter in 1932....

      " (Lead Belly, Alan 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...

      )
  5. "Movin' It On" (Odetta Gordon)
  6. "This Little Light Of Mine
    This Little Light of Mine
    "This Little Light of Mine" is a gospel children's song written by Harry Dixon Loes in about 1920. Loes, who studied at the Moody Bible Institute and the American Conservatory of Music, was a musical composer, and teacher, who wrote, and co-wrote, several other gospel songs. The song has since...

    " (Harry Loes)
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