The Last Word: Odetta
View this link:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20081203_odetta.html?hp
The New York Times has a fantastic lengthy interview and a sort of video eulogy of Odetta. She was incredibly honest and knew what was going on. (I’m going to pull a Daring Fireball and post liberally about Odetta now that she’s dead.)