Odetta - Pastures Of Plenty

[@sandramorey2529]

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.

[@terrymurray934]

Absolutely brilliant.

[@ReynaBanx]

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

[@ieattofu68]

That voice...has experienced many lifetimes...

[@LairMistress]

My personal favorite version of this song...

[@bettyhatch7660]

5:36 EST. So nice to hear Odetta!!!! Discovered her in 1960. My collection was on LPs!! Remember them?😊

[@kixigvak]

This is the best version of Pastures of Plenty. Odetta is a national treasure.

[@mineking11]

Yes, Odetta is an INTERnational treasure

[@couscouswoman]

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..

[@breakfastsurreal5650]

Racism....🥱

[@CringePanda]

Nah people back then weren't filled with hatred like today's leftists.

[@neurodermatitis]

you're all dumb as fuck lmao

[@TheCSJones]

Her version is more powerful. Underscores how hopeless that kind of life is.

[@bluebird-eq5pd]

very good hypothesis. I was wondering why she did this.

[@heartfire451]

God bless her and Woody Guthrie. Their music was this good and true here. Imagine how it will sound in the hereafter.

[@philmulligan5456]

She sang it right, Alan. facebook.com/philip.j.mulligan/videos/10212978851692298/

[@lanabanana68]

@@philmulligan5456 indeedy.

[@trinidadapodaca7027]

u mean the other side don't u? the other side we maintain some control but the here after is different

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

Those who study American literature should listen to this song.

[@ДмитрийГацев]

Amazing version and sure Talented Odetta!

[@terryreed5594]

wow, awesome, just found out about Odetta!

[@steveroberts8719]

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.

[@childofgod9092]

Love this song. She's by far my favourite to cover this!!!! 💓 I'm a big Odetta fan!!!! 😊

[@lanabanana68]

me too.

[@stephenbarry5196]

Stephen. I am a new and devoted admirer of the blessed Odetta.

[@willyjoerockhead]

i heard this song on the radio on labor day - it was years ago but i still remember it

[@richardforster4429]

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!

[@kennethrobertson8730]

What a voice and talent.

[@ccdg1066]

Thank you Milos for uploading this - we need this. Odetta we miss you.

[@lightwork11]

I sure miss that voice, but I'm so happy for recordings.

[@KushaDwipa]

Instruments are hauntingly beautiful.

[@KaraLey98]

Love her excellent of Woody 's great song.

[@louislieberman]

WHEN I WAS GROWNG UP IN THE 1950'S I HAD SEVERAL OF HER RECORDS

[@nadinegary7404]

Beautiful

[@annecohen8927]

This was on ‘Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie’ album before ‘Roll On Columbia’ with Country Joe McDonalds performing. My parents had this album.

[@louislieberman]

takes me back to the '50s

[@KaraLey98]

Yesss!!

[@robertghilarducci7798]

Beautiful song

[@davidanthonystone5165]

just loved her. I saw her as a youngster at Newport folk festivals

[@olrappaport7474]

You blessed man!

[@itsmeGeorgina]

This is my favourite version of this song 🙂

[@julieweatherington-rice2811]

This well may be my favorite version of this song

[@58Morvan]

Goosebump.

[@JohnPaul-qj8fg]

I think the father of film maker Spike Lee, Bill Lee, was playing double bass on this. He was mentioned on the record.

[@johnervin8033]

That is correct. Bill Lee

[@karlayuway4052]

Qué hermosa!❤

[@MsShortstreet]

timeless

[@Nenagr1]

FANTASTIC....LOVE HER

[@MrMcPhersonification]

The instruments are all Odetta Her 12 string guitar with her signature stop time and the original instrument Voice

[@lanabanana68]

[@timothywolfenden4478]

No one like Odetta

[@dPaziS]

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

[@hidwar]

wow

[@julianvickery8341]

"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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6fJopqOo9-XZs0 You can listen to Woody's original version of the song here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/poKYq3Rpa514gNU

[@ngumbao6252]

Guthrie, Dyllan she changed this songs in monuments

[@tom4526]

Wasn't aware she played a 12 string. But she could sure do wonders with 6. Twelve would be awesome!

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

The grapes of wrath.

[@lorityson79]

Depression song. My daddy traveled rails texas to california, picking fruit.

[@bluebird-eq5pd]

thank you for your story.

[@raoulmcwenna6499]

NeoBeo brought me here =)

[@romainperrier-burry1313]

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 😊

[@frenchantonio1]

Traci Chapman has definitely carried on her legacy

[@Izaachou]

Anyone know the chords to this version? Can't make it out!

[@blueskazoo]

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.

[@Izaachou]

@@blueskazoo thank you so much!!!

[@TheCSJones]

We as a society have learned nothing.

[@kaleendavis8427]

No, we certainly have not. Thankfully, I'm not part of society...

[@LBzarro]

Doesnt Nihilism make you feel like shit?

[@TheCSJones]

@@LBzarro I’m not a nihilist, I just don’t trust society at large.

[@DanielPOURSACCONFOLENS]

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

[@DanielPOURSACCONFOLENS]

merci Marcelo bon samedi

[@haalladay]

rampue brought me here

[@Xerath18]

Same here

[@jdzi105]

+Celso Castañeda yeppp