#libba cotten

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folk & blues musician, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (circa 1960s)

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Libba Cotten's freight train. Technically I have some spots I use brush skips to make it more sparse and pensive, but I'm going to reincorporate those slowly as I work on singing along and consistency

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Libba Cotten

(Michael Mauney. 1972)

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Grateful Dead   Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie 

10/29/1980 - Radio City Music Hall

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Libba Cotten: Engineered "Freight Train"

Libba Cotten: Engineered “Freight Train”

January 5 was the birthday of folk and blues singer Libba Cotten (Elizabeth Nevills, 1893-1987). Cotten’s best known song is “Freight Train”, off her 1958 Folkways album Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar , a.k.a. Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes and (originally) Elizabeth Cotten: Negro Folk Songs and Tunes. It became a standard among folksingers over the next…

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libba cotten is the best guitarist ever

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A “Freight Train” Picker: Elizabeth Cotten | TALK STORY

As we prepare for the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Freedom Sounds festival, we look back into our archives of African American music from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and Smithsonian Folkways. A version of this article originally appeared in t

This 1966 interview with Elizabeth Cotten by Mike Seeger echoes many conversations I've been a part of/listening to lately-- on women's work and race and value systems, and women's work and race and professional recognition, and women's work and race and creative work. And even if that context wasn't ringing in my ears, Libba in her own words is enough to bring that all home.

"My mother was one of the top cooks in Chapel Hill, one of the best, and she didn’t make but five dollars a month."

"My baby and my housework and my husband, I loved that so much, until I just kind of drifted away from the guitar. I just didn’t do it much. And then, to keep from going out to work and leaving my baby, I taken in washing and ironing at home. Had about three families’ wash that I’d do at my home. And by doing that, and my cooking and taking care of her, I was busy.

I just forgot about the guitar, and to tell the truth I don’t know what happened to the guitar. I’ve tried to think. I don’t know whether it was left or whether somebody borrowed it. I don’t know what happened to that Stella."