Rest in Peace, Odetta

Legendary American folksinger Odetta died Tuesday. She was 77.

“If only one could be sure that every 50 years a voice and a soul like Odetta’s would come along, the centuries would pass so quickly and painlessly we would hardly recognize time.”
– Maya Angelou

Rosa Parks,
the woman who started the boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery,
Ala., was once asked which songs meant the most to her. She replied,
“All of the songs Odetta sings.”

“The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta.”
— Bob Dylan