Looking for a Home (album)

Looking for a Home
Studio album by
Odetta
Released2001
GenreFolk, blues
Length66:12
LabelM.C.
ProducerSeth Farber, Mark Carpentieri
Odetta chronology
Absolutely the Best
(2000) 		Looking for a Home
(2001) 		The Tradition Masters
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [1]

Looking for a Home is an album by American folk singer Odetta, released in 2001. It consists of songs written and/or performed by Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly. It was her 18th and final studio album.

Track listing

All songs by Huddie Ledbetter, also known as Leadbelly, unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Goodnight, Irene" (Leadbelly, Alan Lomax) – 4:59
  2. "You Don't Know My Mind" – 4:32
  3. "Mother's Blues (Little Children Blues)" – 3:47
  4. "When I Was a Cowboy" – 3:12
  5. "In the Pines" – 4:04
  6. "How Long" – 4:30
  7. "Bourgeois Blues" – 4:33
  8. "Alabama Bound/Boll Weevil" (Leadbelly, Traditional) – 7:21
  9. "Roberta" (Ledbetter, Lomax) – 5:36
  10. "New Orleans" – 4:43
  11. "Jim Crow Blues" – 3:18
  12. "Rock Island Line" – 3:02
  13. "Julie Anne Johnson/Whoa Black Buck" (Ledbetter, Traditional) – 2:48
  14. "Easy Rider" – 5:11
  15. "Midnight Special" – 4:36

Personnel

  • Odetta Felious Holmes – vocals
  • Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - violin
  • Henry Butler - piano
  • Richard Crooks - drums
  • Seth Farber – piano, organ
  • Freddy Koella - mandolin, violin
  • Mike Merritt - bass
  • Shawn Pelton - drums
  • Jim Saporito - percussion
  • Jimmy Vivino - banjo, guitar
  • Kim Wilson - harmonica

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review