microphones in the trees: odetta
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Thursday, December 15, 2005

odetta

"If only one could be sure that every 50 years a voice and a soul like Odetta's would come along, the centuries would pass so quickly and painlessly we would hardly recognize time" – Maya Angelou.
Odetta es un pedazo de cielo folk, un pedazo de cielo gospel, un pedazo de cielo blues. un afrodisíaco, un Bob Dylan astronauta, una postal desde Alabama...
...Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while, Think I see my friends coming, Riding a many mile. Friends, did you get some silver? Did you get a little gold? What did you bring me, my dear friends, To keep me from the Gallows Pole? What did you bring me to keep me from the Gallows Pole? I couldn't get no silver, I couldn't get no gold, You know that we're too damn poor to keep you from the...Swingin' on the gallows pole!...