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the book brilliantly captures the raw magic and complex personalities of a group George Harrison called "the best band in the history of the universe

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the gospel unit that was inventing a strand of soul in the 1950s

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Odetta’s One Grain of Sand the beatles the book brilliantly captures theWhen 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