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Odetta

Dec 4, 2008, 2:52am

The images that flooded my head when I read that Odetta had died are black and white, of a single performer in a spotlight, with a pained expression and a powerfully affecting singing voice. It's a clip used in No Direction Home, the Martin Scorcese biopic of Bob Dylan: The New York Times obituary had a beautifully succinct lede, calling Odetta "The singer whose resonant voice wove together

Artist: Odetta
Link Text: Odetta - Bourgois Blues (live San Francisco, 2008)
File Name: odetta2008-10-04t08.mp3
Year: 2008

Artist: Odetta
Link Text: Odetta - House of the Rising Son (live San Francisco, 2008)
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Year: 2008

R.I.P.: Folk Legend Odetta Dead at 77

Dec 3, 2008, 8:34pm

The Stranger Dance

Folk legend and "voice of the civil rights movement" Odetta died yesterday of heart disease. She was 77 years old. Odetta came to prominence in the 1950s, and was a major influence on future superstars like Bob Dylan , Harry Belafonte , Joan Baez and Janis Joplin . Odetta's influence on Dylan was such that he credited her as his inspiration to ditch rock in favor of folk music: "The first thing that turned me on to [...]

Artist: Odetta
Title: 900 Miles
Link Text: Odetta - 900 Miles
File Name: 900-miles.mp3
Bitrate: 32 kbps
Year: 2008

Artist: Odetta
Title: Glory, Glory
Link Text: Odetta - Glory, Glory
File Name: 11-glory-glory.mp3
Bitrate: 147 kbps
Year: 1956

Artist: Odetta
Title: Go Down, Sunshine
Link Text: Odetta - Go Down, Sunshine
File Name: 11-go-down-sunshine.mp3
Bitrate: 32 kbps
Year: 1962

Artist: Odetta
Title: God's Gonna Cut You Down
Link Text: Odetta - Gods Gonna Cut You Down
File Name: 15-gods-gonna-cut-you-down.mp3
Year: 1956

Artist: Odetta
Title: Midnight Special
Link Text: Odetta - Midnight Special
File Name: 14-midnight-special.mp3
Year: 1957

R.I.P. Odetta

Dec 3, 2008, 7:17pm

HearYa: An Indie Music Blog

Folk music pioneer and civil rights activist, Odetta, died yesterday of heart disease at the age of 77. She influenced artists like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, but considered herself a music historian and not a folk singer. Her bluesy songs of slavery, poverty, and hope were meant to educate and preach her personal gospel. You can read more here . Odetta - Water Boy

Odetta: Another One Done Gone

Dec 3, 2008, 4:06pm

Zoilus

The original one-named diva , known as Odetta Holmes when she was born in Birmingham in 1930 and later by her married name as Odetta Gordon but most of her life simply as Odetta, died yesterday of heart failure in New York, after a couple of weeks in hospital and a couple of years of failing health. I missed her last time she came through Toronto, but saw her at Hugh's Room a couple of years ago, for the first time, and feel fortunate to have breathed the same air as those incredible lungs for a couple of hours as [...]

RIP - Odetta 1930 - 2008

Dec 3, 2008, 10:24am

The Tripwire

Odetta Live in concert 2005, "House of the Rising Sun"

She influenced Bob Dylan , Joan Baez and Janis Joplin . She was a folk pioneer. She is undoubtedly responsible for so many of the sounds we hear in popular music today. Her name is Odetta ; the legendary singer died yesterday at age 77. Despite battling heart disease and failing health, Odetta never stopped rocking, performing 60 concerts in the last two years that featured 90-minute sets of solid singing. Odetta rose to prominence in the 1950s. Active in the civil rights [...]

Odetta Holmes, R.I.P. [Obituaries]

Dec 3, 2008, 10:00am

Idolator

Odetta, famed African-American folk singer, songwriter, actress, and activist, passed away in New York City at the age of 77 last night. Beloved by everyone from Maya Angelou to Bob Dylan to Martin Luther King, Jr. Born in Birmingham and raised in Los Angeles, she began her career in musicals before heading up to San Francisco and falling in with the folk crowd, mixing it up with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. She was signed to Vanguard Records, which was home to darn-near everybody who was anybody in the folk scene at the time. It's important [...]

Odetta :: December 31, 1930 - December 2, 2008

Dec 3, 2008, 2:09am

An Aquarium Drunkard

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Folk legend Odetta hospitalized

Nov 19, 2008, 11:20pm

Indiefolkforever

Say a prayer for Odetta, who hopes to sing at Barack Obama's inaugural. Her Odetta Sings Dylan album has long been a favorite. Via Pollstar, a letter from her manager: Dear Friends of Odetta,On behalf of Odetta's adopted daughter Michelle Esrick and her niece Jan Ford (in California), I would like to share with you - Odetta's large extended family of brothers and sisters - the current health

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