Odetta’s One Grain of Sand post punk Throughout the 1980s

Throughout the 1980s

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This is a vivid and rollicking account of The Band's journey across three decades

When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers

Odetta’s One Grain of Sand post punk Throughout the 1980sWhen 20 year old Odetta Holmes classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become the next Marian Anderson veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed race audiences in 1950s coffee houses, she was making one of the most portentous decisions in the history of both American music and Civil Rights. Released the same year as her famous