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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.
Elizabeth Cotten, the North Carolina folksinger, wrote and recorded a song called "Shake Sugaree" in 1966. [3] The chorus of Cotten's song is "Oh lordie me/Didn't I shake sugaree?" Hunter was aware of this song when he wrote "Sugaree."
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Elizabeth Cotton may refer to: Elizabeth Cotton, Lady Hope (1842–1922), née Cotton, British evangelist Elizabeth Cotten (1893–1987), American singer-songwriter
Elizabeth Cotten – folk and blues musician who lived much of her later life in Syracuse and for whom a bronze statue is dedicated; Asa Danforth – early settler who built a gristmill and sawmill that contributed to the growth of Onondaga County [13] Asa Danforth Jr. – early settler, land speculator, and highway engineer [13]
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)