In honor of Elizabeth Cotten's birthday, we want to share this rare clip of her playing "Washington Blues," a song she wrote in 1965. | Dust-to-Digital
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At age 85, Elizabeth Cotten demonstrates how she taught herself to play guitar as a child and performs the first tune she ever learned, "Wilson Rag." Special thanks to Mike Seeger for everything he did to bring Elizabeth Cotten's music to the world including this footage filmed at Black Hawk College in 1978. | Dust-to-Digital
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Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten was born on this day in 1893. Through her songwriting and unique left-handed, upside-down playing style on guitar and banjo, Cotten has influenced generations of musicians. Here she performs her classic “Freight Train” at the Seeger family home in 1957. Cotten wrote the song as a teenager, inspired by the train sounds near her home in Carrboro, North Carolina. It appeared on her 1958 debut album, Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar, released on Folkways Records and l
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Thinking of the legendary Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten, born on this day in North Carolina in 1893. Her self-taught, left-handed guitar playing (on a guitar strung for a right-handed guitarist), which required her to play the instrument upside-down, became known as “Cotten picking.” Per @npr, “her influence has reverberated through the generations, permeating every genre of music. Here she is in 1980, speaking to an audience of college students & playing “Graduation March” with Mike Seeger. Thank yo
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In this Ukulele lesson on Peghead Nation, Marcy Marxer shows how to play Elizabeth Cotten’s signature song “Freight Train,” with a rolling fingerstyle pattern that emulates Cotten’s guitar playing. Marcy explains the pattern, and shows you which picking fingers to use on each string. Check it out! https://www.pegheadnation.com/string-school/courses/ukulele #ukulele #pegheadnation | Peghead Nation
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