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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Elizabeth Cotten ‎- Freight Train And Other North Carolina Folk Songs And Tunes (1958) | ZERO G SOUNDS

Mo’ Libba

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (1895-1987), best known for her timeless song "Freight Train," built her musical legacy on a firm foundation of late 19th- and early 20th-century African-American instrumental traditions. Through her songwriting, her quietly commanding personality, and her unique left-handed guitar and banjo styles, she inspired and influenced generations of younger artists. In 1984 Cotten was declared a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts and was later recognized by the Smithsonian Institution as a "living treasure." She received a Grammy Award in 1985 when she was ninety, almost eighty years after she first began composing her own works.

Recorded in 1957 and early 1958 by Mike Seeger, "Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes" collects the influential debut sides cut by a then-62-year-old Elizabeth Cotten; even decades after their first release, they remain a veritable primer in the art of finger-picked style guitar playing. The quaint, homespun quality of the material - much of it recorded at Cotten's home with her grandchildren looking on in silence - adds immensely to its intimacy and warmth; the sound quality varies wildly from track to track, but the amazing instrumental work shines through regardless on tracks like the opening "Wilson Rag" and the now-standard "Freight Train.”                

Freight train, freight train . . . here


Tracklist:

1Wilson Rag1:35
2Freight Train2:42
3Going Down The Road Feeling Bad2:09
4I Don't Love Nobody1:10
5Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now0:53
6Graduation March2:29
7Honey Babe Your Papa Cares For You2:11
8Vastopol2:08
9Here Old Rattler Here / Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow / George Buck3:45
10Run…Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone2:15
11Sweet Bye And Bye / What A Friend We Have In Jesus3:00
12Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie4:40
13Spanish Flang Dang2:49
14When I Get Home2:21

This is nice and great quality always enjoy more Elizabeth Cotten

Indelibly etched in the collective memory she does this wonderful old song proud . . that’s because she wrote it!

Aw heck, just checked and this is still commercially available so go get it

if you wish me to remove it please get in touch before setting any web sherrifs on me. . . . . it should be in the public domain by now and heaven knows Libba won’t make anything from it!




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