Fledgling singer-guitarist Odetta Felious had come to San Francisco in 1953 in hopes of landing a gig at the famous hungry i nightclub, but was hired instead to perform at the Tin Angel, a bar near Fisherman's Wharf. Her moving renditions of folk material, sung in a deep, larger-than-life contralto, proved so popular that she was kept on for a year and a half. Fantasy Records captured her and her associate, singer-banjoist Larry Mohr, there and in the studio for an album that marked the begin… MORE