Elizabeth 'Libba' Cotton

Emily Barker and fine fine coffee . . . . . . 

The wonderful Emily Barker mentioned 'Libba' Cotton this morning on her Facebook page in relation to maybe having a daily post of things important to her and the album of Cotton gave me cause to remember the people who have covered her songs from The Grateful Dead to Bob Dylan and folk like Rhiannon Giddens. Emily also mentioned coffee and certain brands which of course we have both done on our respective facebook pages  . . . . . . . . . Cotton was a worker for the Seeger family a domestic and recalls doing the washing up and clearing dishes and also teaching Peggy and Michael some songs which she recounts on Pete Seeger's TV programme with no hint of irony or chagrin from Seeger (see below)

Here's a favourite 'Shake Sugaree' by someone we all know . . . . . . . . 



Rhiannon Giddons



Here's Libba with a song she wrote. . . . . .yup she wrote 'Freight Train'!