Crossroads Cultural Connections will present a night of powerhouse songwriting and soul-stirring vocals on Friday, Feb. 20, and an Iowa Americana duo on Saturday, Feb. 21, at Bishop Hill Creative ...

This week’s Trunk of Funk comes from Cookin' On 3 Burners, delivering a 30-minute mix packed with deep funk, raw grooves and heavy rhythm. The mix lands alongside their latest album ‘Trip’, a ...

Here’s 40 of the most influential black female singers of the 1960s and 1970s. In 2008, Rolling Stone put together a list of ...

Janis Joplin’s raw, powerful voice was shaped by blues legend Bessie Smith and the electrifying stage presence of Tina Turner.

Before there was Bob Dylan, the folk revival icon, there was Odetta. Before there was Janis Joplin, the wailing blues singer, there was Odetta. The woman whom Martin Luther King Jr. called the “Queen ...

Listen to Peter, Paul and Mary’s finale singalong, plus songs from Odetta, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and more. By Jon Pareles Jon Pareles here, chief pop critic at The Times, sitting in for ...

BRADY (Hattel), ODETTA M. 85, passed away peacefully at her home on December 5, 2007 following an extended illness. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Brady. Odetta is survived by her ...

African American folk, blues, jazz and spirituals singer Odetta (1930-2008) discusses her life in America, and her experiences in the music industry. An easy going interview with Celestine Ware held ...

I can’t think of a singer currently alive I’d rather hear perform an homage to Odetta than Gina Coleman, backed by her band Misty Blues, playing at the hallowed Caffe Lena where I last saw Odetta in ...

WILKES-BARRE — A Times Leader story that ran on March 11, 1994, began: “On Sept. 28, 1972, at 3:15 a.m., police found Juanita Todd’s mutilated body in the bedroom of her second floor Academy Street ...

Every year on Sept. 28 a memorial appears on the obituary page of The Times Leader for a woman named Juanita Todd, who was just 22-years-old in 1972 when she was brutally murdered in her apartment at ...

Belinda Odetta Jones Ray was born June 9, 1951, in Amarillo Texas to Mrs. Mary Ball Jones and Mr. Tommy Jones. She leaves to cherish her memories her daughter, Kristen Ray, Odis Ray; her four sisters, ...