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The music has healed me
(3)Rosalie is right. We all need to watch this NYTimes interview with Odetta, The Last Word.
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Odetta
3 Responses to “The music has healed me”
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Hi Sherry. I stole your post. Great video.
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I give it freely, Helen, and give credit to Ro. The more who see this video, the better.
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Rosalie December 5th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
If you’ve never seen what getting inside a song looks like, don’t miss watching — and listening — to Odetta do just that in this video. I love what she says after singing part of a work song:
“The simplicity of the words certainly wouldn’t win a poet’s prize…but there is something more than what the words are saying. The words…it’s almost like an introduction to feelings that the words came out of.”
What gifts she leaves us!


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