🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Freight Train
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Elizabeth Cotten: She Wrote ‘Freight Train’ at 11, Quit Music for 40 Years Then Became a Grammy Icon at 90: For decades, Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten lived a quiet life far removed from the spotlight — raising her family, working… #ElizabethCotten #FreightTrain #GrammyIcon #MusicHistory #WomenInMusic
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Freight Train
#6music #ElizabethCotten
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Elizabeth Cotten playing a couple of tunes (youtu.be/voPJENW6i4c?...) 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
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🎼 #ComposerOfTheDay: 5 Jan
Elizabeth Cotten (1893–1987) – American folk and blues musician famed for her unique “Cotten picking” style. Washington Blues highlights her relaxed, distinctive guitar sound.
🎧 Listen: Washington Blues
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Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, American blues and folk musician, singer, and songwriter, was born on Jan. 5, 1893 (d. 1987). #ElizabethCotten
Libba Cotten Documentary:
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=k439...
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Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, American blues and folk musician, singer, and songwriter, was born on Jan. 5, 1893 (d. 1987). #ElizabethCotten
Elizabeth Cotten segment (probably 1965) on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest TV show (1965-1966)
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Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, American blues and folk musician, singer, and songwriter, was born on Jan. 5, 1893 (d. 1987). #ElizabethCotten
"In the Sweet By-and-By" (Joseph P. Webster, S. Fillmore Bennett) (between 1952 and 1967, 1958 perhaps)
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Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, American blues and folk musician, singer, and songwriter, was born on Jan. 5, 1893 (d. 1987). #ElizabethCotten
"Freight Train" (Elizabeth Cotten)
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Elizabeth Cotten (1893-1987)
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Gaslight Blues
#ElizabethCotten
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Freight Train
#ElizabethCotten
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What would you call this bird? A turkeycorn? A unikey? Come to my gig this coming Sunday morning & tell me your thoughts. #originalsongs #coversongs #bobdylan #arloguthrie #woodyguthrie #buffysaintemarie #johnprine #elizabethcotten #mississippijohnhurt #donovan #katewolf #bertjansch #wizzjones #folk
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#nowplaying #ElizabethCotten was an influential American #folk and #I blues musician. She was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down.
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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.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
#ElizabethCotten
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
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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.
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........17/6 one of the songs nanny #ElizabethCotten taught #PeggySeeger; hello #JoeMeek @mccookerybook.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTA6...
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #MusicMap
Elizabeth Cotten, Paul James, Frederick Williams & Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Freight train
#BBCRadio3 #ElizabethCotten #PaulJames #FrederickWilliams
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Elizabeth Cotten & Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Freight Train
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It's always lovely to hear a piece of music you've heard dozens and dozens of times only to suddenly realize you'd never noticed how wonderful it was.
#ElizabethCotten
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4EA...
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The legendary blueswoman Elizabeth Cotten with “Shake Sugaree” (youtu.be/p66KebI8aZM?...). 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
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A painting of a musician Elizabeth Cotten from the chest up, holding and playing an acoustic guitar, on a two-story brick wall.
Elizabeth Cotten mural in Durham, NC, Cotten’s birthplace. Part of a series of murals of North Carolina musicians. A left-handed and self-taught guitarist and songwriter, Cotten performed at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival and won a Grammy in 1984 at the age of 91.
#ElizabethCotten #NorthCarolina
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
Elizabeth Cotten:
🎵 Gaslight Blues
#ElizabethCotten
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
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@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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Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, American blues and folk musician, singer, and songwriter, was born on Jan. 5, 1893 (d. 1987). #ElizabethCotten
Libba Cotten Documentary:
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=k439...
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