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Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, 1956
Odetta Holmes
Although Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., claimed that Odetta Holmes was the "Queen of American Folk Music," she considered herself "one of the privates in a very big army." She influenced many artists, including Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Her first recording of Oh Freedom was part of a spiritual trilogy that also included Come and Go with Me and I'm on My Way. Her songs have been called "the soundtrack of the civil rights movement." |