Background

• The album is a collection of recordings of 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...
  
   and Larry Mohr from 1953–54; it was partially recorded live at San Francisco's
  San Francisco, California
  San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
  
   Tin Angel nightclub, but was not called "The Tin Angel" on any '50s
  1950s
  The 1950s or The Fifties was the decade that began on January 1, 1950 and ended on December 31, 1959. The decade was the sixth decade of the 20th century...
  
   releases. The 1993 CD re-release, however, did have that name, and contained six extra tracks, recorded in March 1954.
• Like much of Odetta's early work, "The Tin Angel" combines traditional
  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....
  
   songs (e.g. spirituals
  Spiritual (music)
  Spirituals are religious songs which were created by enslaved African people in America.-Terminology and origin:...
  
  ) with blues
  Blues
  Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
  
   covers. It is often only credited as an 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...
  
   solo album, perhaps because she went on to have the more successful career.

Track listing

• Marked [*]are 1993 CD bonus tracks.
  All songs traditional unless stated.

1. "John Henry
   John Henry (folklore)
   John Henry is an American folk hero and tall tale. Henry worked as a "steel-driver"—a man tasked with hammering and chiseling rock in the construction of tunnels for railroad tracks. In the legend, John Henry's prowess as a steel-driver was measured in a race against a steam powered hammer,...
   
   " – 3:09
2. "Old Cotton Fields at Home" (Leadbetter) – 3:59
3. "The Frozen Logger
   Frozen Logger
   The Frozen Logger is an American folk song, written by James Stevens. It is a tall tale song which makes reference to a logger being identifiable by the habit of stirring coffee with his thumb.-Discography:* The Weavers 1951...
   
   " (Haglund
   Ivar Haglund
   Ivar Haglund was a Seattle folk singer and the "flounder" of Ivar's.-Background:Ivar Haglund was born in Seattle, Washington. Ivar Haglund was born to pioneers Johan Ivar Haglund, ­ a Swedish immigrant and Daisy Hanson Haglund, daughter of Norwegian immigrants...
   
   , Stevens
   James Stevens (musician)
   James Stevens was an American author and composer. Born in Albia, Iowa, he lived in Idaho from a young age, and based much of his later novel Big Jim Turner on his childhood spent in Pacific Northwest logging camps...
   
   ) – 2:53
4. "Run, Come See Jerusalem" (Blind Blake
   Blake Alphonso Higgs
   Blake Alphonso Higgs , better known as "Blind Blake", was the best-known performer of goombay/calypso in the Bahamas from the 1930s to the 1960s. -Biography:For much of his career, Blind Blake was based at the Royal Victoria Hotel in Nassau...
   
   ) – 2:06
5. "Old Blue" – 2:36
6. "Water Boy
   Waterboy (song)
   "Waterboy" is an American traditional folk song.Originally a black prison work song composed by Jacques Wolfe, a Romanian immigrant, Waterboy became known as a jazz arrangement by Avery Robinson popularized "Water Boy" in the 1920s...
   
   " – 3:40
7. "Santy Anno" http://users2.ev1.net/~smyth/linernotes/thesongs/SantyAnno.htm – 2:18
8. "I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago"/"The Biggest Thing" – 2:47
9. "Riding in My Car (Car Song)" – 1:27
10. "No More Cane on the Brazos" – 2:19
11. "Payday at Coal Creek" – 3:02
12. "'Buked and Scorned" – 2:46
13. "Rock Island Line
    Rock Island Line (song)
    "Rock Island Line" is an American blues/folk song first recorded by John Lomax in 1934 as sung by inmates in an Arkansas State Prison, and later popularized by Lead Belly. Many versions have been recorded by other artists, most significantly the world-wide hit version in the mid-1950s by Lonnie...
    
    " (Leadbetter) – 1:47
14. "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...
    
    , Tartt http://www.awhf.org/tartt.html) – 3:05
15. "Children Go Where I Send Thee" [*] – 2:35
16. "I Know Where I'm Going" [*] – 2:10
17. "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...
    
    " [*] – 1:55
18. "Timber" [*] – 3:49
19. "Wade in the Water
    Wade in the water
    "Wade in the Water" is the name of an African-American spiritual first published in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers by John Wesley Work II and his brother, Frederick J...
    
    " [*] – 1:57
20. "Dr.Martin Luther King ,Jr called her "the queen of American folk music"

External links

• [ "The Tin Angel" on Allmusic]
• "Odetta And Larry" (album) at Musicstack
• "The Tin Angel" on Amazon (further information/reviews)
  • http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000000XZ5/
  • http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000025VDW