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Thread #116669 Message #2506702
Posted By: John Minear
03-Dec-08 - 06:39 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Odetta has died (1930-2008)
Subject: RE: Obit: Odetta has died (2 December 2008)
Surely she touched and sang what is most powerful in this stuff we call "folk music" and embraced so many of us in our early days with the passion of her voice. There will only be one Odetta. I am grateful to have shared a lifetime with her in this world and to have had the privilege of seeing her in person three times and hearing her twice in concert, once in Toronto and once in Ft. Collins, Colorado. And the third time, well, I passed her in the airport at Lynchburg, Virginia, a couple of years ago. She just smiled at our recognition of who she was. May the power of her music continue on.