Odetta at Carnegie Hall is a live album by American

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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 on April 8, 1960 and released later that year. It is now out of print.

The Choir of the Church of the Master accompanies Odetta on the last four songs.

At Carnegie Hall is also available along with At Town 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 two songs from the At Carnegie Hall LP and 8 songs from the At Town Hall LP. It was also re-released on CD along with Ballad For Americans and Other American Ballads on the Italian label Universe. It is difficult to locate as an import.

Track listing

1. "If I Had a Hammer
   If I Had a Hammer
   "If I Had a Hammer " is a song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. It was written in 1949 in support of the progressive movement, and was first recorded by The Weavers, a folk music quartet composed of Seeger, Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman, and then by Peter, Paul and Mary.- Early...
   
   " (Pete Seeger
   Pete Seeger
   Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...
   
   , Lee Hays)
2. "Red Clay Country"
3. "When I Was a Young Girl"
4. "Gallows Pole
   The Maid Freed from the Gallows
   "The Maid Freed from the Gallows" is one of many titles of a centuries-old folk song about a condemned maiden pleading for someone to buy her freedom from the executioner. In the collection of ballads compiled by Francis James Child, it is indexed as Child Ballad number 95; eleven variants, some...
   
   " (Traditional)
5. "God's A-Gonna Cut You Down
   God's Gonna Cut You Down
   "God's Gonna Cut You Down", also known as "Run On" and "Run On for a Long Time", is a traditional folk song which has been recorded by numerous artists representing a variety of genres...
   
   "
6. "John Riley
   John Riley (song)
   "John Riley" is a traditional English folk song ....
   
   "
7. "John Henry" (Traditional)
8. "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho" (Traditional)
9. "All The Pretty Little Horses
   All the Pretty Horses (lullaby)
   "All the Pretty Little Horses" is a traditional African American lullaby from the southern United States.-Meaning:...
   
   "
10. "Prettiest Train"
11. "Meeting at the Building"
12. "No More Auction Block"
13. "Hold On
    Gospel Plow
    "Gospel Plow" is a traditional American folk song. It is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index, number 10075. The title is biblical, based on Luke 9:62.-Recordings:* Duke Ellington Newport Jazz Festival...
    
    "
14. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
    Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
    "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" is a traditional Negro spiritual.The song dates back to the era of slavery in the United States when it was common practice to sell children of slaves away from their parents. An early performance of the song dates back to the 1870s by the Fisk Jubilee...
    
    " (Traditional)
15. "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down"

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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• in the last four tracks, assisted by the Choir of the Master, Dr. Theodore Stent, Choir Director