Odetta

Long (20 minute), lovely video interview & songs & footage of Odetta at the NYT. Tim Weiner did the interview: The Last Word.

Odetta's first album was released the year I was born.
It's also the year that John Barth published The Floating Opera and Allen Ginsberg published Howl. 18, 19 years later I was digging all three. Most especially Barth. But Ginsberg's books could fit in your back pocket.