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Elizabeth Cotten ‎– Live! (1983)

2019-05-25T14:27:19Z

Elizabeth Cotten ‎– Live! (1983)


A1 	Freight Train 	4:51
A2 	Washington Blues 	4:58
A3 	Jumpin' Jack 	3:40
A4 	Sugaree 	4:26
A5 	Sugaree / Banjo Story, Rattler 	5:37
B1 	Vastopol 	4:28
B2 	Guitar Story 	4:15
B3 	Babe, It Ain't No Lie 	5:50
B4 	Elizabeth Story, Et Al., Honey Babe, Your Papa Cares For You 	8:07
B5 	Spanish Flangdang 	2:35
B6 	'Til We Meet Again 	1:20

I'm not lying when I said that I weeped when I heard "Freight Train" the first time. Every song on this CD moved me as well as her lovely storytelling. This incredible woman was 85 when it was recorded and she sounds so hip and cool. Her guitar playing was very impressive and very ahead of its time. As a musician myself, I have learned a great deal about "Cotten Picking" and melodies. This album is a must have for Elizabeth fans and for people who have an interest in true blue acoustic music :) ---Rose Natalie Grullon, amazon.com

Elizabeth Cotten, born January 5, 1895 in Chapel Hill, S.C., died June 29, 1987 in Syracuse, N.Y., was a self taught blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter. She developed her own style of playing left-handed by holding a normally tuned guitar upside down so she played the melodies with her thumb and the bass lines with her fingers. Her style of playing became known as "Cotten picking".

Cotten wrote most of her music in her early teens and earlier (she wrote "Freight Train" at age 11). After marrying at 15 and getting work as a maid she stopped playing music for 40 years. It wasn't until she was working as a maid for Charles Seeger, an avid music lover, that she relearned how to play the guitar.

In the 1950s Mike Seeger began to record Cotten on reel to reel tape. In 1960 she began to play live for the first time, her first show was with Mike Seeger and she went on to perform with musicians such as Mississippi John Hurt, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters. Because of the positive reaction Cotten began to write, record and tour with new material which she continued to do into her 80s. In 1984 she won the Grammy "Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording" for the album Elizabeth Cotten - Live!.

Elizabeth died when she was 92 in Syracuse, New York. ---discogs.com

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Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (1989)

2014-05-14T15:58:58Z

Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (1989)


1. Wilson rag
2. Freight train
3. Going down the road feeling bad
4. I don't love nobody
5. Ain't got no honey baby now
6. Graduation march
7. Honey baby your papa cares for you
8. Vastopol
9. Here old rattler here / Sent for my fiddle sent for my bow (Sent for my fiddle sent for my son) / Georgia Buck
10. Run...run / Mama your son done gone
11. Sweet bye and bye / What a friend we have in Jesus
12. Oh babe it ain't no lie
13. Spanish Flang Dang
14. When I get home

Elizabeth Cotton – guitar, vocals

Recorded in 1957 and early 1958 by Mike Seeger, Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes collects the influential debut sides cut by a then-62-year-old Elizabeth Cotten; even decades after their first release, they remain a veritable primer in the art of finger-picked style guitar playing. The quaint, homespun quality of the material -- much of it recorded at Cotten's home with her grandchildren looking on in silence -- adds immensely to its intimacy and warmth; the sound quality varies wildly from track to track, but the amazing instrumental work shines through regardless on tracks like the opening "Wilson Rag" and the now-standard "Freight Train." --- Jason Ankeny, Rovi

What can I say? Elizabeth Cotten was one of the best guitar players of all time and almost no one knows about her.I have enormous respect for all the great guitarists from all genres of modern music and to my ears no one comes close,except maybe Mississippi John Hurt, to her fluid and gentle approach to the guitar.Even the great John Fahey was in awe of her natural talent on their shared instrument. And to think this was recorded in her bedroom instead of a studio gives this disc a refreshing sound,just like she was sitting on her bed and playing just for you.Great just to listen to and essential to anyone who is a fan of acoustic guitar playing at its finest.

Freight Train is not just a classic song but it sounds like it has always been here like the mountains and the sky.There are stories of the Grateful Dead whenever they were passing through the area she lived in always making it an essential stop to visit her to talk and play with this mostly unknown treasure.I love this disc and everything about it.Essential and highly recommended. --- R. Cousineau, amazon.com

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Elizabeth Cotten – Shake Sugaree (1967)

2010-09-23T11:18:19Z

Elizabeth Cotten – Shake Sugaree (1967)


1.	Shake Sugaree
2.	Take Me Back to Baltimore
3.	Washington Blues
4.	I'm Going Away
5.	Fox Chase
6.	Ontario Blues
7.	Fare You Well, My Darling
8.	Medley
9.	Mama, Nobody's Here But the Baby
10.	Mama, Nobody's Here But the Baby
11.	Look and Live, My Brother
12.	Jesus Lifted Me
13.	Jesus Is Tenderly Calling     play
14.	Buck Dance
15.	Ruben
16.	Oh, Miss Lulie Gal
17.	Can't Get a Letter From Down the Road
18.	Shoot That Buffalo
19.	Boatman Dance                 play
20.	Hallelujah, It Is Done
21.	Holy Ghost, Unchain My Name
22.	Little Brown Jug
23.	Della
24.	Ball the Jack
25.	Till We Meet Again
26.	When the Train Comes Along

Elizabeth Cotten (vocals, acoustic guitar); Brenda Evans (vocals).

“Age ain’t nothing but a number,” so sang the late Aaliyah. Less overtly, so did North Carolinian Elizabeth Cotton. Born in 1895, she learned to play guitar by sneaking into her brother’s room to practice while he was away. With her ear, she could play a song after hearing it once, and learned all the songs of the Carolina hills. At age 11, she wrote a little tune called “Freight Train.” At 12, she started working as a housecleaner for folks, and with marital and church duties calling, put away the guitar for some 25 years.

She wound up recording her tune “Freight Train” in 1958, where it instantly ascended into the upper echelons of American folk (it even became a hit in the UK!), as if it had been around since the turn of the century. Having never been heard outside of her family parlor before, Cotton was now at the forefront of the blues revival, performing alongside other forgotten recording artists like “Mississippi” John Hurt, Skip James and Sleepy John Estes. Other songs she recollected from her early days in North Carolina and recorded became the foundation of folk for a whole new generation of players. Everyone from Taj Mahal to Delaney and Bonnie, from Bob Dylan to the Grateful Dead, covered her songs, and they are now part of the American songbook.

Cotten was declared a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1984, and was recognized by the Smithsonian Institution as a "living treasure." She received a Grammy Award in 1985 when she was 90. These essential 1965-66 recordings include ten previously unreleased tracks. 26 tracks. 60 minutes. Reissued from Folkways 31003.

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