Odetta & Larry was a short-lived blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

-folk

Folk music

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 duo in the mid-1950s. It consisted of Odetta

Odetta

Odetta Holmes, known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals...

 and Lawrence B. Mohr, the former of whom became the more well-known in ensuing decades.

Their only musical output for posterity was recorded live at San Francisco's Tin Angel nightclub

Nightclub

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 in 1953/1954, and first issued on two 7 inch EPs

Extended play

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 and a 10 inch album

Album

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 on the Fantasy

Fantasy Records

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 label

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Mohr later earned a Ph.D. in political science. and was Professor on the political science faculty at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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Discography

• The Tin Angel presents Odetta & Larry Vol. 1 (Fantasy EP-4017 1954)
• The Tin Angel presents Odetta & Larry Vol. 2 (Fantasy EP-4018 1954)
• The Tin Angel presents Odetta & Larry (Fantasy LP 3-15 1954)
• Odetta and Larry
  The Tin Angel
  The Tin Angel is now the common name for Odetta & Larry's only album, a collection of all their recordings, originally released in 1954 as "Odetta And Larry".- Background :...
  
  (1954), also known as The Tin Angel
  The Tin Angel
  The Tin Angel is now the common name for Odetta & Larry's only album, a collection of all their recordings, originally released in 1954 as "Odetta And Larry".- Background :...
  
  , the name of the 1993 re-release

External links

• Illustrated Odetta & Larry discography (liner notes, reissues, etc.)
• [ Allmusic entry for Tin Angel re-release.]
• Lawrence B. Mohr page at the University of Michigan