Odetta

A legend's legend

by Kate Conner-Ruben

posted 3/1/2003

It brings me up short to realize that I have been listening to Odetta, and in awe of Odetta, for forty years. Like many other baby boomers, I grew up with an Odetta record or two in the house. My favorite was the oddly titled Odetta and Larry. Larry Mohr was a nasal-voiced folksinger who somehow got to sing almost an entire record of duets with Odetta, who has a voice like a mountain.

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