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Odetta

Posted 12 months ago

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

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