Odetta

...War was simmering and poised to explode, and the civil rights movement was gaining steam just as singers like Peter Seeger, Bob Dylan and Odetta were hanging out and composing fierce and fearless songs that reflected the social conscience of...

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...said. "We'll have a long discussion about this later. " Sometimes through tears, members of Odetta's family shared stories of Odetta's penchant for late-night infomercial shopping and thriftiness. Boots Jaffe, whom Odetta considered a...

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...heard something "vital and personal" he said, adding: "I learned all the songs on that record, Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues." Born Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1930, her parents left the Deep South for Los Angeles in the...

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...her manager, Doug Yeager. He added that she had been hoping to sing at Barack Obama's inauguration. Odetta - she was born Odetta Holmes - sang at coffeehouses and Carnegie Hall and released several albums, becoming one of the most...

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...and traded my electric guitar and amplifier for an acoustical guitar." The admiration was mutual: in 1965 Odetta released an album called Odetta Sings Dylan, which featured Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; Masters of War; and The Times They...

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...Doug Yeager says Odetta died Tuesday of heart disease at the age of 77. American folk music legend Odetta dies at 77 Folk performer Odetta sings at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in this 1978 file photo. Odetta, the folk singer with the...

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...of President-elect Barack Obama, though she had not been officially invited, Yeager said. Born Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Ala., in 1930, she moved with her family to Los Angeles at age 6. Her father had died when she was young and...

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...of segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama, was once asked which songs meant the most to her. "All the songs Odetta sings," was Parks' reply. Odetta, who moved from Alabama to Los Angeles with her mother in 1937, earned a music degree from...

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...Joan Baez, Janis Joplin and Tracy Chapman. "The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta," Dylan once said. "From Odetta, I went to Harry Belafonte, the Kingston Trio, little by little uncovering more as I went along."

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...to Leadbelly)" paid tribute to the great blues singer to whom she was sometimes compared. Born Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1930, she moved with her family to Los Angeles at age 6. Her father had died when she was young and she...

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