#Odetta Holmes

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Today In History

Odetta Holmes is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil rights activist, often referred to as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” who was born on this date December 31, 1930 in Birmingham, Alabama.

Odetta musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she influenced many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin.

Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music.

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[thechanelmuse]

Black American Music Month

• ELIZABETH “LIBBA” COTTEN - She was a maid at 9, wrote a hit song at 11 — and won a Grammy at 93. Not to mention she was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down. This position meant that she would play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb.

• SISTER ROSETTA THARPE- The “Godmother of Rock & Roll.” She helped shape modern popular music, was one of the few Black female guitarists to ever find commercial success and the first artist to blend gospel with the secular.

• ODETTA HOLMES - Known as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement.” In 1963, she sang for the masses on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington. Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals.

• PEGGY JONES - Nicknamed “Lady Bo” played rhythm guitar in Bo Diddley's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming one of the first (perhaps the first) female rock guitarists in a highly visible rock band. Sometimes called the “Queen Mother of Guitar.”

• LIZZIE “MEMPHIS MINNIE” DOUGLAS - Known as the “Queen of the Blues,” was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Her title stems from her legacy of successfully recording music across four decades as well as being the lone female voice in a male dominated blues scene.

• NORMA JEAN WOFFORD - Nicknamed “The Duchess” by Bo Diddley, she was the second female guitarist in Diddley's backing band.

• ALGIA MAE HINTON - She was widely recognized as a master picker and buckdancer in the Piedmont styles. She would often play her guitar behind her head while buck dancing.

• ETTA BAKER - She was a Piedmont blues/folk guitarist and singer who began playing the guitar at age 3. Taught by her father, long-time Piedmont player Boone Reid, Etta played 6-string and 12-string acoustic guitar, and 5-string banjo. She was a master of the blues guitar style that became popular in the southern piedmont after the turn of the century.

• JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL - A legend of hill country blues guitar. She grew up in a lineage of familial fife-and-drums bands from northern Mississippi, rose to popularity in the mid-1980s and had a fruitful career during which she performed around the globe, traveling mostly on her own. She played in open tunings and, having started as a drummer, had a percussive guitar style that included slapping and banging the instrument. She would also tie a tambourine around her calf, which, together with her strumming-and-drumming guitar work, gave her performance the sound of a one-woman-band.

• BEVERLY “GUITAR” WATKINS - One part soul singer, one part rockin' roadhouse mama, and one part gifted songwriter. She's been chronically under-recorded for a woman with her résumé, performing with the likes of James Brown, Ray Charles and Otis Redding. She didn’t record her first album until she was 60. Her blistering licks on a 1962 red Fender Mustang earned her the well-deserved nickname “Guitar.” She gon’ put on a show:

One more for good measure:

• WILLIE MAE “BIG MAMA” THORNTON - Also referred to as “The Godmother of Rock & Roll.” She was a blues singer, songwriter, self-taught drummer, and harmonica player. She was the first to record "Hound Dog", in 1952, which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies. She also helped to shape the sound and style of “Texas-blues,” an evolving blues sub-genre known to incorporate swing and big band elements.

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Do You Know This Disabled Character?

Susannah Dean / Odetta Holmes / Detta Walker have Dissociative Identity Disorder. They are also an amputee.

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[readyforevolution]

Remembering Odetta Holmes, known as Odetta on the day of her birth, singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and a civil and human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she influenced many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin. Time magazine included her recording of "Take This Hammer" on its list of the 100 Greatest Popular Songs, stating that "Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music." R.I.P.

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[musickickztoo]

Odetta   

December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008

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[deadassdiaspore]

#Odetta Holmes #Música negra #Mulheres Negras na Música #Folk Music #História da Música Negra

[moth-miles]

*Jake singing Riptide for the ka-tet, but they all freak out when he starts describing their situations in the second verse*

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Raymond Logan — Odetta Holmes  (oil on canvas, 2021)

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Graphic Novel The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three als Omnibus Hardcover erhältlich

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Tennessee Ernie Ford and Odetta - What A Friend We Have

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Odetta Holmes, Photo by Rondal Partridge, 1960s

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[radiofreederry]

Happy birthday, Odetta! (December 31, 1930)

An accomplished musician of folk and blues, Odetta Holmes was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and her vocal talent was noticed at a young age, with her classical training in operatic singing beginning at age 13. She moved to Los Angeles to study music at LA City College, dreaming of joining the opera. After a few years working in musical theatre, she moved to San Francisco and became enamored with its folk scene, resolving to sing folk songs herself. She gained national fame and recognition, particularly after a well-received collaboration with Harry Belafonte. Like many other folk singers of her generation, Odetta was politically active, singing "O Freedom" at the March on Washington. Among others, she is cited as an influence by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, and Maya Angelou. She died in 2008.

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[powderblueblood]

I hope this isn't too random but I really like your taste in movies and media and one of my favourite movies ever is Dogfight (1991) with River Phoenix (which I think you'll like if you haven't seen it already) and I love the idea of a Dogfight AU with Eddie or maybe Steve. It's pretty convenient that the lead character's named Eddie in the film too lol. Anyway, I'm not making a request or anything like that I just wanted to say that ever since I started following your blog I've felt that you're the perfect kind of writer to do a story like that. I watched the movie again a few days ago and I was reminded of your blog and I kept thinking oh man if anyone could get this AU down the right way it would be powder

so I want to preface this with telling you that I hadn’t seen dogfight when I received this ask but I read this and I was like you know what. I’ve got nothing on this morning lets pop in a movie

and jesus christ anon, have you ever got my number. i really, really liked it. took a few notes during. this was one of them

and i also got to thinking about this little sketch-- i mean, i have a bias towards wisecracking tragedy boy eddie munson lets be so serious, so i watched it with him in mind. (i also think there's such fertile real estate with steve as berzin-- i wanna talk about the marcie of it all with him!)

but you've got eddie, okay, eddie with a crew cut and a malaise that seems boyish but isn't. in boot camp, they cut off one of the last things that made him him (his hair, i am always thinking about his hair) and dressed him up to send him off to die.

on the one hand, he's dabbled in the counterculture by virtue of being an outsider all his life (he knows the war is fucked); on the other, he doesn't want to be a draft dodger like his father. the more he's surrounded by something like the rigidity and after-dark feral lost boy-ishness of the marines, the easier it becomes to surrender to it. forget himself. make a bunch of jarhead buddies and put money on a dogfight.

they're calling for okinawa in the morning. he's got twelve hours in frisco and a mission to find the ugliest date that he can.

and then he meets you.

you, and you are sweet and weedy in nature with a guitar in your hand, with hands you hold like there oughta be rosary beads webbed between your fingers. your shrine to joan baez and odetta holmes on the wall of your bedroom in the apartment above the diner that he stumbles into, sweating and desperate and running low on that classic munson charm, trying to find the gnarliest bitch hound in all of san francisco.

your hair is a little too done up in a poor imitation of girls in the magazines and you move your body like it's a constant obstruction, apologetic to everyone in your path. you're perfect-- for this. he asks you to a party, a party set up to humiliate you and amuse him and that's all well and good until--

you pluck off the chords of dink's song and you remind eddie of something he'd tried to beat down, you pressed little flower you.

and this eventual exchange.

'what are you grinnin' about?'

'i was just wondering what you'd look like with your hair a little longer and without that bruise on your face...'

sweetheart, i need to have a fucking LIE DOWN. this really might end up on my WIPS by VIRTUE OF THIS ASK ALONE. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE! I LOVE YOU

#powder room talk #anonymous #eddie munson x reader #dogfight au #WHAT TJE FUUUUUCK THIS IS SO ENTIRELY MY SHIT!!!!!!!

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Today In History Odetta Holmes is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil rights activist, often referred to as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” who was born on this date December 31, 1930 in Birmingham, Alabama. Odetta musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she influenced many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin. CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #cartermagazine #historyandhiphop365 #carter #staywoke #odettaholmes #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #blacktwitter https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm1OBjOORmw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[cosmicanger]

Odetta Holmes, Photo by Rondal Partridge, 1960s

[puzzlewagon]

About that bit in The Waste Lands...

I've seen it said a few times now that when Jake's teacher fawns over his essay on the truth, that's just Stephen King getting his licks in on literary critics. That he's just mocking those who try to read deeply into his novels. I think that's only part of the equation, though.

While Ms. Avery does have some false starts in interpreting the piece, and while she is doing the classic Literature teacher thing of assuming everything is a direct allegory with a 1:1 mapping onto real life, at least some of what she says has a kernel of truth to it. She calls Roland symbolic of Jake's father, and while he bears little resemblance to Elmer Chambers, any knowledge of the later books (or anything King himself has said outside of the books) should make it clear that he IS a paternal figure to Jake. Even more than that, she asserts that Roland is based on Childe Roland from the Robert Browning poem, which is obviously the case in real life. She mistakes The Prisoner (Eddie) for a representation of Jake, but she correctly identifies that he feels trapped in his life, and then Jake DOES get taken prisoner later in that same book.

What I'm getting at here is I think Jake is being made a fool of just as much as Ms. Avery. King wants us to find some synthesis between rabidly seeking out allegory in everything we read and refusing to engage with the text on any level deeper than the surface. We have knowledge Jake is not privy to. Of COURSE it seems silly to him that Roland would be "based on" a character from a poem, just as it would seem silly to suggest that his friend Odetta Holmes was named after a folk singer in the "real" world. But we know better. We know that Jake's essay WAS laced with symbolism, and we SHOULD read more into it.

And that is the truth.

Choo-choo.

#the dark tower #stephen king #jake chambers #very rambly post sorry #i was just listening to a podcast that i otherwise really like and heard the SAME simplistic reading that i always hear #literary analysis