Saturday, January 5, 2008

Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train


Another entry in the guitar player's choice series. For finger-pickers in the sixties this was a standard.

Elizabeth Cotten plays the guitar "upside-down," i.e., strung right-handed but played left-handed, which if you're a guitar player means you watch her just to see how she does it. Wish there were more and better shots of her hands.

This is something like the fourth clip I've posted from Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest series, which I don't think I ever saw at the time. Here's a brief article about the series from Mother Jones. If there are any rich folk music fans reading this, there's a project for you: get Rainbow Quest released on DVD.

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