Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten ( Nevills; January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was an influential American folk and 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. This position meant that she would play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb. Her signature alternating bass style has become known as "Cotten picking". NPR stated "her influence has reverberated through the generations, permeating every genre of music."Her album ''Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar'' (1958), was placed into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress, and was deemed as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The album included her signature recording "Freight Train", a song she wrote in her early teens. In 1984, her live album ''Elizabeth Cotten Live!'', won her a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, at the age of 90. That same year, Cotten was recognized as a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2022, she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as an early influence. Provided by Wikipedia
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Shake sugaree / by Cotten, Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Cotten : when I'm gone. by Cotten, Elizabeth
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Freight train and other North Carolina folk songs and tunes / by Cotten, Elizabeth
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Negro folk songs and tunes
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Freight train and other North Carolina folk songs and tunes
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Close to home : [old time music from Mike Seeger's collection, 1952-1967]
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A Fish that's a song.
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Folk music U.S.A.
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Classic folk music from Smithsonian Folkways.
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Classic blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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Classic blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
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