Video: Odetta-Cotton Fields

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 [...]