Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Odetta





New York Times Article

5 comments:

ejaydee said...

I'm just watching the video in that article right now.

ejaydee said...

Here it is:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/12/02/arts/music/1194832844841/last-word-odetta.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

goneforeign said...

She was a powerful voice in the 60's, I remember lots of her songs particularly 'Take this Hammer' - great performance.

ShivSidecar said...

I saw Odetta at a Cambridge Folk Festival, 6 or 7 years ago. She didn't mince her words about the state of the world - I remember her saying that health provision for poor black Americans hadn't improved since Memphis Minnie's day. Another pioneer performer gone.

treefrogdemon said...

One of her last gigs (if not THE last) was on Oct 2 at McCabe's guitar shop in LA for their 50th anniversary. RT was there too, that's how I know. See
http://romancho.com/mccabes50th/

photo 18 - among others.