Mike Swayze 😎 on Instagram: "📼 Flashback Rewind 1960s 👇📖 🇺🇸🎸 Elizabeth Cotten — “Freight Train” (Live Performance) 💬 🎶 “When I was just a little bitty baby…” Elizabeth Cotten stands as one of the most quietly radical figures in American music history. Self-taught and left-handed, she played a right-handed guitar flipped upside down, unintentionally inventing what became known as Cotten style—thumb-led melodies with fingerpicked bass lines moving in reverse of conventional technique. At
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Mike Swayze 😎 on Instagram: "📼 Flashback Rewind 1960s 👇📖 🇺🇸🎸 Elizabeth Cotten — “Freight Train” (Live Performance) 💬 🎶 “When I was just a little bitty baby…” Elizabeth Cotten stands as one of the most quietly radical figures in American music history. Self-taught and left-handed, she played a right-handed guitar flipped upside down, unintentionally inventing what became known as Cotten style—thumb-led melodies with fingerpicked bass lines moving in reverse of conventional technique. At
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Veronika Jackson performs “Freight Train,” written by the American folk and blues legend, Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten at the southernmost terminus of the Underground Railroad, the Underground Railroad Tree, during the 2020 NC Folk Festival Virtual Concert Series (presented by @piedmont_blues) #veronikajackson #freighttrain #elizabethcotten #blues #folk #undergroundrailroad #BlackHistoryMonth #history #northcarolina | North Carolina Folk Festival
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