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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 ]
Under the advocacy of the influential Seeger family, the copyright was eventually restored to Cotten. [3] [4] Nevertheless, it remains mis-credited in many sources. 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]
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.
The song was recorded by many artists through the years. The first known recording is from 1923 by Henry Whitter, an Appalachian singer, [2] [3] as "Lonesome Road Blues". The earliest versions of the lyrics are from the perspective of an inmate in prison with the refrain, "I'm down in that jail on my knees" and a reference to eating "corn bread and beans."
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)
Nancy Wilson was born in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, Scotland, [1] and learned guitar as a child. [2] While attending art school in Glasgow, she performed on the local folk club circuit where she met fellow singer and guitarist Jimmie Macgregor who introduced her to blues and hillbilly music. [2]
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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