Odetta
Americannoun
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Odetta Holmes, 1930–2008, U.S. folk singer.
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a female given name.
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Lee was a session bassist who has played on albums by Odetta, Woody Guthrie, Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, John Lee Hooker and Peter, Paul and Mary, among many others.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023
The whole hour is just this sort of chilling: percussive work songs, big-bottomed gospel, moaning blues, dramatically spare sets that imply segregation and incarceration, the weather system that called herself Odetta.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
Special guest Odetta Holmes, the influential singer and human rights activist, performed with Belafonte — an episode that can be watched online today.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2022
Odetta said something similar: “There are those people who are at their best when they are inventing,” she once said.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2021
Other times there would be Negro Spirituals sung by Odetta or folk songs rendered by Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston, or Woody Guthrie.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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