Looking for a Home (album) explained

Looking for a Home
Type:	studio album
Artist:	Odetta
Cover:	LookingForAHomeOdetta.jpg
Released:	2001
Genre:	Folk, blues
Length:	66:12
Label:	M.C.
Producer:	Seth Farber, Mark Carpentieri
Prev Title:	Absolutely the Best
Prev Year:	2000
Next Title:	The Tradition Masters
Next Year:	2002

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

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

• • Odetta Felious Holmes – vocals 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