Word: odetta
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...When I discovered folk music, I suddenly saw how dreadful the world could be," says a singer from Los Angeles known to her friends as Odetta Felious Gordon but to her fans simply as Odetta...
Despite the blues, the anger and the protest that are part of her folk repertory, the world is not being dreadful to Odetta.' This week she moves from Boston's Storyville into Manhattan's Blue Angel, applauded as the most exciting female folk singer...
...Odetta, a 29-year-old Alabama-born singer who works out of Chicago and has become a favorite with the campus crowd. Originally trained for opera, Odetta first achieved fame with her version of Water Boy, has a repertory of some 200 sad, bawdy and fanciful songs-Bald-Headed Woman, Dark as a Dungeon, Great Historical Bums-all of which she delivers in a dark, handsomely pliant contralto with none of the whisky rawness of untutored folk singers...
Tonight with Belafonte (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). One hour of songs by Harry Belafonte and Fellow Folk Singer Odetta...
...This country can support only two folksingers at a time, and right now those two are Pete Seeger and Odetta," a Harvard senior said sometime ago, giving up plans to make a living with a guitar and banjo and heading off to the Law School...