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This is the BLUES. Watch American Blues legend, Elizabeth Cotten, playing her most famous song, "Freight Train." Notice how she played a right handed guitar upside down. Cotten was a true original. | Guitar Loves

This is the BLUES. Watch American Blues legend, Elizabeth Cotten, playing her most famous song, "Freight Train." Notice how she played a right handed guitar upside down. Cotten was a true original. | Guitar Loves

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Watch Elizabeth Cotten's performance of 'Freight Train'

Watch Elizabeth Cotten's performance of 'Freight Train'

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Elizabeth Cotten - “Georgie Buck” & “Freight Train” (1985) performing in her Syracuse, Ny home at age 90 | Blues Compartido

Elizabeth Cotten - “Georgie Buck” & “Freight Train” (1985) performing in her Syracuse, Ny home at age 90 | Blues Compartido

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Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train And Other North Carolina Folk Songs And Tunes

Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train And Other North Carolina Folk Songs And Tunes

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

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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Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train

Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train

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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

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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Elizabeth Cotten Wrote “Freight Train” at 11, Won a Grammy at 90, and Changed American Music In-Between

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Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten) - Guitar Lesson and TAB and Chords

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Visiting Elizabeth Cotten’s 1935 Martin D28 at The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. “Libba” Cotten is one of the pioneering female guitarists I featured in my latest album, ONE GUITAR WOMAN. Her story is so cool, as she didn’t start playing professionally until she was 57 years old. She played left-handed, upside down, and she wrote some of the finest folk songs in the history of American Music. Her guitar style, Piedmont fingerpicking, is challenging to learn, but really fun to play once y

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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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