Odessa Settles plus The Steel Wheels
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The lineage of Nashville\'s Fairfield Four thrives and resonates in Odessa Settles, this week\\u2019s guest on The String. The daughter of singer Walter J. Settles (1928-1999), Odessa is an in-demand singer who values the full spectrum of sacred to secular music, especially the roots/Americana world where she\\u2019s amassed a long resume. She\\u2019s been a guest vocalist on projects by Darrell Scott, Kathy Mattea, Tim O\\u2019Brien and last year\\u2019s Rifles & Rosary Beads by Mary Gauthier. She works solo and in combination with her surviving brothers (she was the only girl of eight kids growing up) in the vocal group The Settles Connection. And she\\u2019s pulled all this off while maintaining an intense career as a nurse for premature babies at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Also in the hour, a visit with Trent Wagler and Jay Lapp, veterans of VA band The Steel Wheels, who\'ve just released their seventh LP album.\\xa0
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