I know I will seem to be an « heretic » lol, but according to me, Odetta just sang the best version of this standard !!! 🤩🤩🤩❤️ sorry for Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and all the others 😊
My mother and her friend sat behind Odetta on the city bus during the Van City Folk Festival. I just wish I'd of sent her out with a record to autograph. Just kidding. And I would've only been 12 years old. Ha!
Nobody could sing like Odetta and her arrangements were fantastic. Woody Guthrie wrote this classic but nobody could put it over so beautifully as Odetta. Heard her through her youth (& mine) and last heard her just before she passed and she could still sing anyone else under the table.
"I come with the dust and I am gone with the wind." Odetta's wonderful 1960 cover of "Pastures of Plenty", a song written by Woody Guthrie in 1942, from the album "Ballad for Americans and Other American Ballads", released on the Vanguard label. czcams.com/video/5vfqgXnzd0k/video.html You can listen to Woody's original version of the song here: czcams.com/video/pQ5zA368EJs/video.html
It's a mighty hard row my poor hands have hoed My poor feet have travelled this hot dusty road Out of your dustbowl and westward we roam Through deserts so hot and through mountains so cold I've wandered all over your green, growing land Wherever your crops are, I'll lend you my hand On the edge of your cities, you'll see me and then I come with the dust and I'm gone with the wind California, Arizona, I've worked on your crops And northward up to Oregon to gather your hops I've dug beets from the ground, I've cut grapes from the vine To set at your table that white sparkling wine Green pastures of plenty from the dry desert ground From the grand Coolie dam where the waters run down In every state of this union we migrants have been We work on the land and we'll fight until we win It's always we ramble, that river and I All along your green valleys I'll work 'til I die Travel this road until death sets me free 'Cause pastures of plenty must always be free
Woody bangs away solidly in C. Odetta plays it in F#minor with a simple chord change toward the end of the verse. I hear it in Am with a hammer on like a Joan Baez riff and a quarter note worth of a Dm. If that's too boring you can go to and E7 quickly in the middle. I also played around with playing C under the verse and going to the Am between the verses. Have fun.
Odetta was the greatest. Saw her once many moons ago. We lost one of the great voices of American music. Woody's great song as performed like no one else has recorded it before or since.
She changed the lyrics for this line: My land I'll defend with my life if need be. She said instead: Travel this road until death sets me free. I believe due to racism she experienced in her life she didn't want to die for America like Woody Guthries had wanted..
i heard this song on the radio on labor day - it was years ago but i still remember it
Those who study American literature should listen to this song.
Traci Chapman has definitely carried on her legacy
I know I will seem to be an « heretic » lol, but according to me, Odetta just sang the best version of this standard !!! 🤩🤩🤩❤️ sorry for Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and all the others 😊
Beautiful
I think the father of film maker Spike Lee, Bill Lee, was playing double bass on this. He was mentioned on the record.
This is the best version of Pastures of Plenty. Odetta is a national treasure.
Yes, Odetta is an INTERnational treasure
wow, awesome, just found out about Odetta!
My mother and her friend sat behind Odetta on the city bus during the Van City Folk Festival. I just wish I'd of sent her out with a record to autograph. Just kidding. And I would've only been 12 years old. Ha!
Nobody could sing like Odetta and her arrangements were fantastic. Woody Guthrie wrote this classic but nobody could put it over so beautifully as Odetta. Heard her through her youth (& mine) and last heard her just before she passed and she could still sing anyone else under the table.
Absolutely brilliant.
to be fair though he wrote it, she changed half the lyrics, it is not exactly like he wrote it, she rewrote it to fit her
Thank you Milos for uploading this - we need this. Odetta we miss you.
Depression song. My daddy traveled rails texas to california, picking fruit.
thank you for your story.
That voice...has experienced many lifetimes...
Amazing version and sure Talented Odetta!
"I come with the dust and I am gone with the wind." Odetta's wonderful 1960 cover of "Pastures of Plenty", a song written by Woody Guthrie in 1942, from the album "Ballad for Americans and Other American Ballads", released on the Vanguard label. czcams.com/video/5vfqgXnzd0k/video.html You can listen to Woody's original version of the song here: czcams.com/video/pQ5zA368EJs/video.html
This was on ‘Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie’ album before ‘Roll On Columbia’ with Country Joe McDonalds performing. My parents had this album.
NeoBeo brought me here =)
Stephen. I am a new and devoted admirer of the blessed Odetta.
wow
It's a mighty hard row my poor hands have hoed My poor feet have travelled this hot dusty road Out of your dustbowl and westward we roam Through deserts so hot and through mountains so cold I've wandered all over your green, growing land Wherever your crops are, I'll lend you my hand On the edge of your cities, you'll see me and then I come with the dust and I'm gone with the wind California, Arizona, I've worked on your crops And northward up to Oregon to gather your hops I've dug beets from the ground, I've cut grapes from the vine To set at your table that white sparkling wine Green pastures of plenty from the dry desert ground From the grand Coolie dam where the waters run down In every state of this union we migrants have been We work on the land and we'll fight until we win It's always we ramble, that river and I All along your green valleys I'll work 'til I die Travel this road until death sets me free 'Cause pastures of plenty must always be free
Love her excellent of Woody 's great song.
WHEN I WAS GROWNG UP IN THE 1950'S I HAD SEVERAL OF HER RECORDS
What a voice and talent.
timeless
Guthrie, Dyllan she changed this songs in monuments
This is my favourite version of this song 🙂
Anyone know the chords to this version? Can't make it out!
Woody bangs away solidly in C. Odetta plays it in F#minor with a simple chord change toward the end of the verse. I hear it in Am with a hammer on like a Joan Baez riff and a quarter note worth of a Dm. If that's too boring you can go to and E7 quickly in the middle. I also played around with playing C under the verse and going to the Am between the verses. Have fun.
@@blueskazoo thank you so much!!!
Odetta was the greatest. Saw her once many moons ago. We lost one of the great voices of American music. Woody's great song as performed like no one else has recorded it before or since.
We as a society have learned nothing.
No, we certainly have not. Thankfully, I'm not part of society...
Doesnt Nihilism make you feel like shit?
@@gangstalker9 I’m not a nihilist, I just don’t trust society at large.
Qué hermosa!❤
She changed the lyrics for this line: My land I'll defend with my life if need be. She said instead: Travel this road until death sets me free. I believe due to racism she experienced in her life she didn't want to die for America like Woody Guthries had wanted..
Racism....🥱
Nah people back then weren't filled with hatred like today's leftists.
you're all dumb as fuck lmao
Her version is more powerful. Underscores how hopeless that kind of life is.
very good hypothesis. I was wondering why she did this.
The grapes of wrath.
This well may be my favorite version of this song
Beautiful song
just loved her. I saw her as a youngster at Newport folk festivals
You blessed man!
rampue brought me here
Same here
+Celso Castañeda yeppp
Love this song. She's by far my favourite to cover this!!!! 💓 I'm a big Odetta fan!!!! 😊
me too.
Always the greatest. So many wonderful times to remember with the Motley Crew. What a crew it was and you are sounding as marvelous as ever.
My personal favorite version of this song...
en voici une autre par Oetta qui est très très bonne mais je suis désolé car je ne trouve la version de son compositeur Tom Pomposello dommage
merci Marcelo bon samedi
God bless her and Woody Guthrie. Their music was this good and true here. Imagine how it will sound in the hereafter.
She sang it right, Alan. facebook.com/philip.j.mulligan/videos/10212978851692298/
@@philmulligan5456 indeedy.
u mean the other side don't u? the other side we maintain some control but the here after is different
I sure miss that voice, but I'm so happy for recordings.
takes me back to the '50s
Yesss!!
FANTASTIC....LOVE HER
Wasn't aware she played a 12 string. But she could sure do wonders with 6. Twelve would be awesome!
The instruments are all Odetta Her 12 string guitar with her signature stop time and the original instrument Voice
<3
No one like Odetta
Instruments are hauntingly beautiful.
Goosebump.