She's laid her burden down

I think one original artist with words says it best of another with voice...

"If only one could be sure that every 50 years a voice and a soul like Odetta's would come along, the centuries would pass so quickly and painlessly we would hardly recognize time"

Maya Angelou, Poet Laureate

For more on Odetta, see http://folkmusicarchives.org/odetta.htm