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R.I.P. Odetta
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Odetta, 77; Sang the Soundtrack for the Civil Rights Movement
Odetta, 77, a forceful singer during the folk music revival and civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s, and a self-described "musical historian" who championed the downtrodden by reviving slave, prison and work songs, died Dec. 2 at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital. She had heart disease and pulmonary fibrosis. ...
You Don't Know My Mind / Odetta
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