Blues Everywhere I Go

Infobox Album |
Name = Blues Everywhere I Go
Type = studio album
Artist = Odetta


Released = 1999
Recorded = Mar 22, 1999-Jun 21, 1999
Genre = Folk, blues
Length = 63:34
Label = M.C.
Producer = Seth Farber
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hpfqxq8kldfe link]
Last album = "To Ella"
(1998)
This album = "Blues Everywhere I Go"
(1999)
Next album = "The Best of the Vanguard Years"
(1999)

"Blues Everywhere I Go" is an album by American folk singer Odetta, released in 1999. It was her first new release in over a decade.

Allmusic said in their review: "... time doesn't appear to have affected her interpretive skills or the range and quality of her voice, which remains one of the most remarkable instruments in American folk and blues music to date."

"Blues Everywhere I Go" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 42nd Grammy Awards. It was her first nomination after over 50 years of recording. [ [http://www.blues.co.nz/news/article.php?id=258 Blues News. Odetta Gets Nomination.] ]

Track listing

#"Blues Everywhere I Go" (Scott Shirley) – 4:53
#"Please Send Me Someone to Love" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:33
#"Dink's Blues" (Dink Johnson) – 4:48
#"Unemployment Blues" – 4:05
#"TB Blues" (Victoria Spivey) – 4:06
#"Trouble Everywhere/I've Been Living With the Blues" (Brownie McGhee, Wallace) – 4:01
#"Can't Afford to Lose My Man" (Ernest Lawlers) – 2:56
#"Homeless Blues" (Porter Grainger) – 5:58
#"Oh, Papa" (Davide Elman) – 3:01
#"Look the World Over" (Lawlers) – 3:37
#"Careless Love/St. Louis Blues" (Handy, Koenig, Leadbelly) – 7:50
#"Hear Me Talking to You" – 3:15
#"Rich Man Blues" (Lowe) – 4:41
#"W.P.A. Blues" (Big Bill Broonzy) – 4:12
#"You Gotta Know How" (Sippie Wallace) – 3:38

Personnel

*Odetta – vocals, guitar
*Dr. John – piano, vocals
*Paul Ossola – bass
*Shawn Pelton – drums
*Larry Eagle – drums
*Seth Farber – piano
*Tom "Bones" Malone – sax

Production notes

*Produced and arranged by Seth Farber
*Engineered by Fred Guarino
*Photography by Robert Corwin

References