Blog: Nothin' Sez Somethin'

A delayed post from earlier this month, no less poignant now... On Dec. 2, the Queen of American folksingers, Odetta, died of heart failure just short of her 78th birthday. Odetta Holmes was born in Birmingham, Ala., on Dec. 31, 1930, in the depths of the Depression. The music of that time & place...particularly prison songs & work songs recorded in the fields of the Deep South...shaped her life. Her discography is an aural history, centuries deep, of abduction, enslavement, social & sexual abuse by the whites in [...]