With Odetta coming to Fall River this Saturday night(March 26)--as part of the "Shout, Sister, Shout" show we're presenting at Bristol Community College--I thought it would be fun digging into an Odetta recording to kind of get warmed up for the show.
Back in 1999 she did a CD for M.C. Records called "Blues Everywhere I Go," which was her first studio recording in something like fourteen years.
It's a celebration of the first blues recording artists: women. That's right, Eric Clapton did not make the first blues record! Various women did in the 1920s and '30s, including Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie and Alberta Hunter. While the quality of the recording is, of course, much better than the scratchy 78s those women issued, there's certainly an old time feel to the record.
If you see the CD around--maybe they'll have it available at this Saturday's performance--it's worth purchasing if you like smokey, nightclub blues. Click on this for more information:
http://www.mc-records.com/html/odetta_news.htm.
Tickets are still available for this Saturday's show, which will be at Bristol Community College's Jackson Arts Center on Elsbree Street in Fall River.
Bristol Community College is 5 minutes off Route 24. Get off at the President Avenue exit. Go about half-way around the rotary, going straight at McDonald's (on your left). Take a right at the stoplight, and go down about a mile. It's on your right.
See you at the show!
Submitted by Steve the Emcee, who still has the what-happened-to-my-happy-home blues.
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