Odetta’s One Grain of Sand the beatles The Song Machine goes behind

The Song Machine goes behind the scenes to offer an insider's look at the global hit factories manufacturing the songs that have everyone hooked

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

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

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

Odetta’s One Grain of Sand the beatles The Song Machine goes behindWhen 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