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Dec 4: The folk singer Odetta died this week and some memories of Odetta

Famous folk singer Odetta passed away this week
  • Odetta represented hope for the future in the 1960's for many people and was a extraordinary folk singer.
  • "Odetta, the folk singer and civil rights campaigner, has died before she could fulfil her wish to sing at Barack Obama's inauguration as president" according to the Australian.
  • The New York Times says that Odetta "the singer whose resonant voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement"
  • My memories of Odetta: As a child, my mother gave an Odetta LP record album as reassurance in the early 1960's. When my father was discouraged with the Civil Rights situation in the South where we lived in 1963. My mother inscribed some words of encouragement to my father on the back of the Odetta LP album - "to restore your faith in elective democracy." And with the election of Obama this past month, elective democracy has won out and Civil Rights movement has made progress (With the notable exception of Prop. Five in California). I still have that Odetta LP today - "Odetta sings the Ballad for Americans and other American Ballads". Her album was always an inspire to me over th... Read more...

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