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Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (née Nevills; January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) [1] [2] [3] 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. [ 4 ]
The Elizabeth Cotten recording for the Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar album was made by Mike Seeger in late 1957, early 1958, at Cotten's home in Washington, D.C. [5] Ramblin' Jack Elliott recorded this song in 1957. It is included on the CD, The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957.
Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar is a 1958 album by American blues and folk musician Elizabeth Cotten and was released on Folkways Records as FG 3526. In 1989 it was reissued by Smithsonian Folkways as SFW40009 featuring Mike Seeger's updated notes with comments on Cotten's life, musical style, and song lyrics.
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Carly Simon: Wow, I didn't even know about Elizabeth Cotten. I remember trying to play a guitar part that Elizabeth Cotten played on one of her records. I don't even know if it was a guitar; it ...
A latter day guitarist, vocalist, educator, and author, Turner plays in the Piedmont style of fingerpicking guitar, continuing in the traditions of Mississippi John Hurt, Elizabeth Cotten, Memphis Minnie, and Etta Baker.
In Rolling Stone, David Fricke wrote enthusiastically, "The fluid, orchestral invention of Bromberg's fingerpicking — his original calling card on pivotal late-Sixties and Seventies sessions for Jerry Jeff Walker ("Mr. Bojangles") and Bob Dylan (New Morning) — is in undiminished bloom, invigorating sturdy old blues and ballads by Robert Johnson, Reverend Gary Davis and Elizabeth Cotten ...
Elizabeth Cotten (Ruggere 1980:48ff) Dick Dale [1] Ed Deane; Cheick Hamala Diabate (RH instruments with original stringing and custom LH instruments with backwards stringing) also banjo and ngoni; Lefty Dizz; Eric Gales (naturally right-handed, but plays left-handed. His left-handed brother taught him that way. [6]) Bob Geldof (The Boomtown Rats)