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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Freight Trainhttps://graymcclary.bandcamp.com/track/elizabeth-cotten-freight-train
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Freight Trainhttps://graymcclary.bandcamp.com/track/elizabeth-cotten-freight-train
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'Elizabeth Cotten wrote one of the most beloved folk songs of the 20th Century when she was only 11 years old. It was only after a chance meeting decades later that the song became famous.
A self taught musician, Cotten learned guitar left-handed, using a standard string setup, essentially playing upside down. She wrote "Freight Train" as a child in the early 1900s, inspired by the rumbling carriages rolling down the tracks near her house in North Carolina.
In the early 1950s, after Cotten had long retired from guitar playing, she was working as shop assistant, and reunited a lost child with her mother. The mother and child were Penny and Ruth Seeger of the influential Seeger folk dynasty.
Cotten began working with the family, caring for their children. She was encouraged by the family to play music again, and re-learned to play the guitar, essentially from scratch, in her 60s.
Peggy Seeger went to England in the 1950s, and often performed her one-time nanny's songs. "Freight Train" in particular became very popular in the burgeoning British folk revival. With many mistaking it for a public domain standard, it would end up becoming altered, and copyrighted by a British skiffle act. Copyright would eventually be rightfully returned to Cotten with the help of the Seeger family.
Cotten's own first recording of "Freight Train", was in 1957, five decades after she wrote it as a child. It would be covered by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Jerry Garcia and countless thousands more.'
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'Elizabeth Cotten wrote one of the most beloved folk songs of the 20th Century when she was only 11 years old. It was only after a chance meeting decades later that the song became famous.
A self taught musician, Cotten learned guitar left-handed, using a standard string setup, essentially playing upside down. She wrote "Freight Train" as a child in the early 1900s, inspired by the rumbling carriages rolling down the tracks near her house in North Carolina.
In the early 1950s, after Cotten had long retired from guitar playing, she was working as shop assistant, and reunited a lost child with her mother. The mother and child were Penny and Ruth Seeger of the influential Seeger folk dynasty.
Cotten began working with the family, caring for their children. She was encouraged by the family to play music again, and re-learned to play the guitar, essentially from scratch, in her 60s.
Peggy Seeger went to England in the 1950s, and often performed her one-time nanny's songs. "Freight Train" in particular became very popular in the burgeoning British folk revival. With many mistaking it for a public domain standard, it would end up becoming altered, and copyrighted by a British skiffle act. Copyright would eventually be rightfully returned to Cotten with the help of the Seeger family.
Cotten's own first recording of "Freight Train", was in 1957, five decades after she wrote it as a child. It would be covered by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Jerry Garcia and countless thousands more.'
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Of course, we can't go from Sebastopol → Sylvester Poole without at least visiting Vestapol. Is there anything recognizable left? When it's Elizabeth Cotten playing, you don't have time to think of anything but her playing:
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Of course, we can't go from Sebastopol → Sylvester Poole without at least visiting Vestapol. Is there anything recognizable left? When it's Elizabeth Cotten playing, you don't have time to think of anything but her playing:
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Elizabeth Cotten playing a couple of tunes (https://youtu.be/voPJENW6i4c?si=siJxI9X0vFf3cw72) with her signature lefty guitar that’s strung for a righty player. She’s alternating playing a bassline with her index finger while playing the melody with her thumb🤯
#RetroView #ElizabethCotten #blues #BlackHistoryMonth -
Elizabeth Cotten playing a couple of tunes (https://youtu.be/voPJENW6i4c?si=siJxI9X0vFf3cw72) with her signature lefty guitar that’s strung for a righty player. She’s alternating playing a bassline with her index finger while playing the melody with her thumb🤯
#RetroView #ElizabethCotten #blues #BlackHistoryMonth -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Gaslight Blueshttps://open.spotify.com/track/2fx2dhK7jqB6PLDe73HGu4
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2nycjqXrmy3ewC8bBsSReC🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Gaslight Blueshttps://open.spotify.com/track/2fx2dhK7jqB6PLDe73HGu4
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2nycjqXrmy3ewC8bBsSReC🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Freight Trainhttps://folknoodle.bandcamp.com/track/freight-train-elizabeth-cotten-chet-atkins
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Freight Trainhttps://folknoodle.bandcamp.com/track/freight-train-elizabeth-cotten-chet-atkins
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"Freight Train" is an American folk song written by #ElizabethCotten in the early 20th century, and popularized during the #AmericanFolkRevival and British #skiffle period of the 1950s and 1960s. By Cotten's own account in the 1985 #BBC series Down Home, she composed "Freight Train" as a teenager (sometime between 1906 and 1912), inspired by the sound of the trains rolling in on the tracks near her home in #NorthCarolina.
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"Freight Train" is an American folk song written by #ElizabethCotten in the early 20th century, and popularized during the #AmericanFolkRevival and British #skiffle period of the 1950s and 1960s. By Cotten's own account in the 1985 #BBC series Down Home, she composed "Freight Train" as a teenager (sometime between 1906 and 1912), inspired by the sound of the trains rolling in on the tracks near her home in #NorthCarolina.
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"Freight Train" is an American folk song written by #ElizabethCotten in the early 20th century, and popularized during the #AmericanFolkRevival and British #skiffle period of the 1950s and 1960s. By Cotten's own account in the 1985 #BBC series Down Home, she composed "Freight Train" as a teenager (sometime between 1906 and 1912), inspired by the sound of the trains rolling in on the tracks near her home in #NorthCarolina.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I99jqEk_Prw -
"Freight Train" is an American folk song written by #ElizabethCotten in the early 20th century, and popularized during the #AmericanFolkRevival and British #skiffle period of the 1950s and 1960s. By Cotten's own account in the 1985 #BBC series Down Home, she composed "Freight Train" as a teenager (sometime between 1906 and 1912), inspired by the sound of the trains rolling in on the tracks near her home in #NorthCarolina.
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The legendary blueswoman Elizabeth Cotten with “Shake Sugaree” (https://youtu.be/p66KebI8aZM?si=-_Ks-Iro02sSoI_J). Unlike a lot of guitarists, she primarily plays with finger picking AND she’s a lefty who plays the guitar righty-style
#RetroView #ElizabethCotten #blues -
The legendary blueswoman Elizabeth Cotten with “Shake Sugaree” (https://youtu.be/p66KebI8aZM?si=-_Ks-Iro02sSoI_J). Unlike a lot of guitarists, she primarily plays with finger picking AND she’s a lefty who plays the guitar righty-style
#RetroView #ElizabethCotten #blues -
@lpl wants us to have a #BlastFromThePast this #TuneTuesday 🚀
Not sure when this recording was made, somewhere in the '60s.. Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train
* https://youtu.be/R2DCWfBkMSI
* No YT tracking link
#music @Kitty #blues #country #americana #oldtime #ElizabethCotten #GuitarPicking
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#NowPlaying Born on this day in 1895, #ElizabethCotten taught herself to play the guitar and banjo as a child. She was left-handed yet played a guitar for a right-hander, meaning she played everything upside down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPibSxgIyw
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#NowPlaying Born on this day in 1895, #ElizabethCotten taught herself to play the guitar and banjo as a child. She was left-handed yet played a guitar for a right-hander, meaning she played everything upside down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPibSxgIyw
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Hace más de 70 años la perdida de una niña provocó uno de los más sorprendentes descubrimientos de la historia de la música.
Tanto, que las consecuencias de aquel suceso aún latiendo en el alma de muchas músicas.
Hoy, en #LaHistorietaMusical, la historia de Elizabeth Cotten.
#ElizabethCotten #blues #folk #Country #peggyseeger #peteseeger #freighttrain #LaHistorietaMusical
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Hace más de 70 años la perdida de una niña provocó uno de los más sorprendentes descubrimientos de la historia de la música.
Tanto, que las consecuencias de aquel suceso aún latiendo en el alma de muchas músicas.
Hoy, en #LaHistorietaMusical, la historia de Elizabeth Cotten.
#ElizabethCotten #blues #folk #Country #peggyseeger #peteseeger #freighttrain #LaHistorietaMusical
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Elizabeth Cotten (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played her 1950 Martin 00-18 guitar upside down and strung for a right-handed player. This allowed her to alternate bass lines into her songs.
#RetroView #ElizabethCotten #blues -
Elizabeth Cotten (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played her 1950 Martin 00-18 guitar upside down and strung for a right-handed player. This allowed her to alternate bass lines into her songs.
#RetroView #ElizabethCotten #blues -
🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Oh Babe, It Ain't No Liehttps://open.spotify.com/track/0PpmycayWd0U0gN35SUL7d
https://elizabethcotten.bandcamp.com/track/oh-babe-it-aint-no-lie
🎶 #Show #playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F6PDmIbE0oCzbwTklfrLZ🎶 #KEXP #playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Oh Babe, It Ain't No Liehttps://open.spotify.com/track/0PpmycayWd0U0gN35SUL7d
https://elizabethcotten.bandcamp.com/track/oh-babe-it-aint-no-lie
🎶 #Show #playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F6PDmIbE0oCzbwTklfrLZ🎶 #KEXP #playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
Elizabeth Cotten - "When I'm Gone" (1979)
#NowPlaying #ElizabethCotten #Folkways #folkmusic #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
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Elizabeth Cotten - "When I'm Gone" (1979)
#NowPlaying #ElizabethCotten #Folkways #folkmusic #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
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Elizabeth Cotten (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played the guitar upside down and strung for a right-handed player. This allowed her to alternate bass lines into her songs.
#RetroView #ElizabethCotten #Blues #BlackHistoryMonth -
Some Blues ladies and their guitars: Memphis Minnie (1937 National Spanish), Beverly Watkins (Fender Squire), and Elizabeth Cotten (1950 Martin 00-18)
#RetroView #MemphisMinnie #BeverlyWatkins #ElizabethCotten #Blues #guitargear #BlackHistoryMonth -
Just a little more blues
This is Elizabeth Cotten playing Vestapol. Originally "The Siege of Sevastopol", this instrumental was popular in late 18th/early 19th century America. Supposedly it was in a pamphlet included with guitar sales. It popularized open d - known as 'Vestapol tuning'.
Cotten was left-handed, holding her guitar upside down - picking the melody with her thumb & the base with her fingers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4EA8DNjxx4
#vestapol #elizabethCotten #blues #fingerpicking #guitar #music
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American folk and blues musician Elizabeth Cotten #ElizabethCotten #FolkMusic #BluesMusic #Music
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American folk and blues musician Elizabeth Cotten #ElizabethCotten #FolkMusic #BluesMusic #Music
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When I started playing blues I never liked the Piedmont fingerstyle
I was more in to hard drivin' boogie. But now I love it!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pUdUX5Gagc
https://word.undead-network.de/2022/01/10/when-i-started-playing-blues-i-never-liked-the-piedmont-fingerstyle/
#ElizabethCotten #Piedmontfingerstyle