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  1. Crowstone @[email protected] ·

    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.

    youtube.com/watch?v=S4EA8DNjxx

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