The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #116669 Message #2506834
Posted By: Mark Ross
03-Dec-08 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Odetta has died (1930-2008)
Subject: RE: Obit: Odetta has died (2 December 2008)
I met her when I was 16 and my best friend Boots Jaffe took me to one of her concerts. She looked on Boots as her son, and he took me backstage to meet her and hang out. Ended up going down to One Sheridan Square to see the Chambers Brothers with her. I would run into her in later years after I started playing in the Village. She would be sitting at the end of the bar on Bleeker Street next to the Bitter End usually. A magnificent performer, the strongest woman I have ever met, an incredible presence! She will be missed. We are losing too many of these people lately.
Mark Ross