<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/420e6210-c898-4642-9763-1c682cc701e4/34FC618F-1F70-4381-AD34-8349FCDBFC10/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blues.about.com/b/2008/11/24/folk-blues-legend-odetta-hospitalized.htm#comment-1" href="http://blues.about.com/b/2008/11/24/folk-blues-legend-odetta-hospitalized.htm#comment-1" style="font-size: 11px;">blues.about.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blues.about.com/b/2008/11/24/folk-blues-legend-odetta-hospitalized.htm#comment-1"><H1>Folk-Blues Legend Odetta Hospitalized</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blues.about.com/b/2008/11/24/folk-blues-legend-odetta-hospitalized.htm#comment-1">Inspired by folk-oriented country-bluesmen like Sonny Terry, Odetta released her first album, <EM>The Tin Angel</EM>, in 1954. Along with her stage work as an actress, Odetta became a well-known figure in early-1960s folk circles, and later became known as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement" for her strong stance on the issue. During the decade of the '60s, Odetta released 16 albums, and she continued to tour and record until her recent illness.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blues.about.com/b/2008/11/24/folk-blues-legend-odetta-hospitalized.htm#comment-1"><P>Odetta was presented the National Endowment for the Arts' Medal of the Arts from President Clinton in 1999, and she is currently scheduled to perform at President Elect Barrack Obama's inauguration in January 2009, a gig that she plans on keeping. If you'd like to offer your words of encouragement to this American musical treasure, send a card or letter to Odetta at the address below.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blues.about.com/b/2008/11/24/folk-blues-legend-odetta-hospitalized.htm#comment-1">Ms. Odetta Gordon Room #719, 7th Floor ICU Unit Lenox Hill Hospital 100 East 77th Street New York, NY, 10021</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/34FC618F-1F70-4381-AD34-8349FCDBFC10/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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