Watch Elizabeth Cotten's performance of 'Freight Train'
Watch Elizabeth Cotten's performance of 'Freight Train'
Oct 27, 2021
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Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (Rare Live Performance)
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Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (Rare Live Performance)
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Freight Train performed by Elizabeth Cotten
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Cotten on her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction today. Here she is speaking to a college audience in 1980 followed by a performance from 1965 of "Freight Train," a song she wrote at the age of eleven. | Dust-to-Digital
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Cotten on her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction today. Here she is speaking to a college audience in 1980 followed by a performance from 1965 of "Freight Train," a song she wrote at the age of eleven. | Dust-to-Digital
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Freight Train Elizabeth Cotton
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Mike Swayze 😎 on Instagram: "📼 Flashback Rewind 1960s 👇📖 🇺🇸🎸 Elizabeth Cotten — “Freight Train” (Live Performance) 💬 🎶 “When I was just a little bitty baby…” Elizabeth Cotten stands as one of the most quietly radical figures in American music history. Self-taught and left-handed, she played a right-handed guitar flipped upside down, unintentionally inventing what became known as Cotten style—thumb-led melodies with fingerpicked bass lines moving in reverse of conventional technique. At
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Mike Swayze 😎 on Instagram: "📼 Flashback Rewind 1960s 👇📖 🇺🇸🎸 Elizabeth Cotten — “Freight Train” (Live Performance) 💬 🎶 “When I was just a little bitty baby…” Elizabeth Cotten stands as one of the most quietly radical figures in American music history. Self-taught and left-handed, she played a right-handed guitar flipped upside down, unintentionally inventing what became known as Cotten style—thumb-led melodies with fingerpicked bass lines moving in reverse of conventional technique. At
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Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (Live)
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Elizabeth Cotten Wrote “Freight Train” at 11, Won a Grammy at 90, and Changed American Music In-Between
May 1, 2019
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@myownsummary on Instagram: "Elizabeth Cotten, a self-taught blues and folk musician, performs her signature song, "Freight Train," live. Cotten developed a unique fingerstyle guitar technique known as "Cotten picking," where she played a right-handed guitar left-handed and upside down, plucking bass lines with her fingers and melodies with her thumb. This unconventional approach resulted in a distinct and influential sound. "Freight Train" was composed by Cotten when she was a young girl and be
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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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Elizabeth Cotten-Rainbow Quest Tv Show
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Remembering Elizabeth Cotten, gone 36 years today. Here she is performing and discussing her version of “Ruben” in 1969. | Dust-to-Digital
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Elizabeth Cotten - Vestapol Elizabeth Cotten was among the most influential guitarists to surface during the roots music revival era, her wonderfully expressive and dexterous fingerpicking style a major inspiration to the generations of players who followed in her wake. Cotten was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the early weeks of 1893. After first picking up the banjo at the age of eight, she soon moved on to her brother’s guitar, laying it flat on her lap and over time developing her p
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Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (Live Performance)
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Elizabeth Cotten is a self-taught guitarist, singer and songwriter who didn’t attain any degree of public recognition until she was in her mid-60s, Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten nonetheless became one of the most revered figures in the world of folk music after her talents were discovered in the 1950s, with her song “Freight Train” becoming a standard. Cotten’s unusual self-invented picking style (born of necessity, as the left-handed Libba learned to play on a right-handed guitar turned upside-down)
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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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Libba' Cotten whose 'upside-down' fingerpicking style is known as 'Cotten-picking', was born on June 29th 1887. Libba wrote the song 'Freight Train' when she was 12 years old. She worked as a nurse for the Seeger family and they recorded her in the 50's, leading to a late but productive career. | All About Blues Music
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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 Cotten - Live!
Oct 1, 2021
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United States of Americana host Bill DeVille talks about legendary artist Elizabeth Cotten — an influential songwriter and guitarist to commemorate during Black History Month and to celebrate all year long. Listen to United States of Americana on Sundays from 8 to 10 a.m. Central; tune in, stream, use the smartphone app or tell your smart speakers to play The Current. | The Current
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Freight Train / Elizabeth Cotten
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Elizabeth Cotten - Live!
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Remembering Grammy Award-winning musician Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten
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Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train"
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Freight train - Elizabeth Cotten, arranged by Tommy Emmanuel
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Remembering Elizabeth Cotten, born on this day in 1893 in North Carolina. Here she is performing "Sweet By and By." | Dust-to-Digital
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Freight Train - (as Elizabeth Cotten played it) | Breakdown + Guitar Lesson
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Sunny War covers Elizabeth Cotten: "FreightTrain" | Live Studio Performance
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