Odetta’s One Grain of Sand the beatles gently steams-over the trappings of

gently steams-over the trappings of fame

In the fall of 1980 Richard and Linda Thompson (of Fairport Convention fame) had recently been dumped from their record label and were on the verge of divorce

Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering

One Grain of Sand captures the social justice project that was Odetta's voice

Transformer includes approximately 16 pages of black-and-white and color photos

Odetta’s One Grain of Sand the beatles gently steams-over the trappings ofWhen 20 year old Odetta Holmesclassically trained as a vocalist and poised to become the next Marian Andersonveered 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 influential decisions in the history of both American music and Civil Rights. Released the same year as her famous