Odetta: Walk With God

"Odetta Holmes known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist. Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she was influential to many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin. Time included her song "Take This Hammer" on its list of the All-Time 100 Songs, stating that "Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music. In 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr. anointed her "The Queen of American folk music". Also in 1961 the duo Harry Belafonte and Odetta made #32 in the UK Singles Chart with the song There's a Hole in My Bucket. Many Americans remember her performance at the 1963 civil rights movement's march to Washington where she sang "O Freedom." She considered her involvement in the Civil Rights movement as being "one of the privates in a very big army."- Wikipedia

music includes:

Odetta - Pastures Of Plenty

(Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie, 1972)

unrelated folk

Ruth Brown - Walk With Me

(Gospel Time, 1962)

Martha Bass - Walk With Me

(Martha Sings Mahalia)

Nina Simone - I Got No (I Got Life)
(Ne Me Quitte Pas, 1954)




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