The Blog Formerly Known As Vote '08

[above: sculpture at Howard Finster's Paradise Gardens, Trion, Georgia (which reopened to the public this month), Spring, 2000 . photo by my wife.]

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“I love to perform. It has been the folk music that has informed me, educated me, got me to feeling good and better about myself and I have a need to propagandize and to continue putting out the stories of how strong a group of people we came from, how we got over, under, through in spite of all the feet that were holding us down. So I’m a propagandist really.”

Who said it?

The late, great Queen of American Folk Music, Odetta, on the Tavis Smiley show, January 25th of this year. Odetta died of heart failure this week.

Below: a performance on that show, a song she was (possibly) going to sing at Barack Obama’s inauguration.

Below: a performance from earlier in her career, “Waterboy.”

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