Blog: Cover Lay Down

After hinting at the project for months, our favorite anglocentric femme-celebrating mag/blog Wears the Trousers has finally finished mixing their upcoming tribute album Beautiful Star: The Songs of Odetta ; I'm honored to have been among the first to hear it, and after settling into it for a few go-rounds I'm also pleased to announce that it's a strong album well worth celebrating on several levels - among them its respectful approach to the Odetta songbook, its musical range and depth and beauty, and the fact that all profits will go to benefit UK women's charities. [...]

• Odetta - No Expectations (Rolling Stones cover)
• Odetta - Pastures Of Plenty (Woody Guthrie cover)
• Ora Cogan - Motherless Child (Odetta cover / trad.)