Customer Review: Heard an excerpt of Odetta's singing on NPR and got so excited I bought two CDs. Unfortunately there was nothing on the label to warn me that "the Essential Odetta by Odetta" was a recording of a live concert. There is nothing more annoying on a CD than to have to listen to enthusiastic and... more info
Customer Review: ...when you need to hear greatness, when you need inspiration, when you want to listen to The Best...hell, when you are plain "in need...!" This album on vinyl competed with Dinah Washington to get me through many a nightmarish Dartmouth exam - in the mid-60's. I already miss Odetta. She will... more info
Customer Review: This album brought back good memories of when I was pre-teen. The Kingston Trio were very popular when I was growing up. This album has some of the best Kingston Trio's songs.
Customer Review: There's two kinds of people in the world, people who get Bob Dylan and people who don't. Bob Dylan's first album portrays his very soul in its rawest confusion and crisis. His heart cries out to the world in every one of these songs. This is truly one of music's greatest albums, and if you really do... more info
Customer Review: A moderate disappointment, this LP showcases the very early, and somewhat tentative Odetta. A transfer of her first LP, this 16 song disc provides a look at someone who would become a truly great singer and guitarist, but has not yet achieved that.
Many of these songs were recorded again later,... more info
Customer Review: what happened to Blonde on Blonde? the best Dylan record of the 60's gets absolutely no inclusion on this disc? i'm totally disappointed in this playlist. that whole album was MONEY! it's not that the songs chosen are bad by any stretch of the imagination, but give me a break. blonde on blonde... more info
Customer Review: As a gift for an older brother , I hit the mark.....! The Kingston Trio
was as popular in the home that I grew-up in as Peter,Paul & Mary ; the Association , Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young & others......5 STAR review
Customer Review: Another Side of Bob Dylan being Dylan's 1964 release and his 4th studio album is a very good album and at the time it was a departure from his overt issue oriented folk music which had dominated his previous records. Instead he started to write introspective lyrics which was not appreciated by the... more info
