Christmas Spirituals

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Christmas Spirituals
Studio album by Odetta
Released	1960
Recorded	Carnegie Hall
Genre	Spirituals, Gospel, Christmas
Length	29:06
Label	Vanguard
Producer	Rachel Faro
Odetta chronology
Odetta at Carnegie Hall (1960) Christmas Spirituals (1960) Odetta and The Blues (1962)
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Christmas Spirituals is the name of two albums recorded by the American folk singer Odetta. The first was released in 1960 on Vanguard Records. The second, a new recording of mostly the same songs, produced by Rachel Faro at White Crowe Audio in Burlington, Vermont, was originally released in 1987 on Alcazar Records and was reissued digitally in 2007 on Ashe Records. Both albums have Bill Lee, Spike Lee's father on double bass. The cover of the second Christmas Spirituals album, by the artist Coleen Patterson, depicts a Black Madonna by the River Jordan with the Three Kings in attendance. Odetta said that these songs were traditional spirituals that emerged from the sufferings of slavery as a catharsis for the terrible wrongs that were committed.