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Looking for a Home (album)

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Looking for a Home
Studio album by
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
SourceRating
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

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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

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  • Odetta Felious Holmesvocals
  • 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

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