Elizabeth Cotten

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Freight Train 02:47 Tools
Shake Sugaree 00:00 Tools
Going down the Road feeling bad 02:12 Tools
I'm Going Away 00:00 Tools
Wilson Rag 00:00 Tools
Vastopol 00:00 Tools
Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now 00:00 Tools
I Don't Love Nobody 00:00 Tools
Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie 00:00 Tools
Graduation March 00:00 Tools
Washington Blues 00:00 Tools
Honey Babe Your Papa Cares For You 00:00 Tools
When I get Home 00:00 Tools
Take Me Back To Baltimore 00:00 Tools
Spanish Flang Dang 00:00 Tools
Fox Chase 00:00 Tools
Mama, Nobody's Here But The Baby 00:00 Tools
Fare You Well, My Darling 00:00 Tools
Ontario Blues 00:00 Tools
Oh, Miss Lulie Gal 00:00 Tools
Jesus Is Tenderly Calling 00:00 Tools
Jesus Lifted Me 00:00 Tools
Buck Dance 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah, It Is Done 00:00 Tools
Ruben 00:00 Tools
Can't Get A Letter From Down The Road 00:00 Tools
Shoot That Buffalo 00:00 Tools
Holy Ghost, Unchain My Name 00:00 Tools
Boatman Dance 00:00 Tools
Till We Meet Again 00:00 Tools
When The Train Comes Along 00:00 Tools
Ball The Jack 00:00 Tools
little brown jug 00:00 Tools
Delia 00:00 Tools
Here old rattler here / Sent for my fiddle sent for my bow (Sent for my fiddle sent for my son) / Georgia Buck 00:00 Tools
Look And Live, My Brother 00:00 Tools
Medley: A) Run...Run B) Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bye and Bye / What a Friend We Have in Jesus 00:00 Tools
Medley: A) Sweet Bye And Bye B) What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
Medley: A)Here Old Rattler Here B) Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow C) George Buck 00:00 Tools
Run...Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Untitled / George Buck 00:00 Tools
New Year's Eve 00:00 Tools
Guitar Story 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' Jack 00:00 Tools
`Til We Meet Again 00:00 Tools
Praying Time Will Soon Be Over 00:00 Tools
Gaslight Blues 00:00 Tools
Untitled/Georgie Buck 00:00 Tools
Time To Stop Your Idling 00:00 Tools
When I'm Gone 00:00 Tools
Jenny 00:00 Tools
Casey Jones 00:00 Tools
Home Sweet Home 00:00 Tools
Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Willie 00:00 Tools
Look & Live, My Brother 00:00 Tools
Boddie's Song 00:00 Tools
Shake Sugaree / Banjo Story, Rattler 00:00 Tools
Untitled / Georgie Buck 00:00 Tools
Shake Sugaree (1) 00:00 Tools
a) Run...Run b) Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Vastapol 00:00 Tools
Here Old Rattler Here / Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow / George Buck 00:00 Tools
Elizabeth Story, Et Al., Honey Babe, Your Papa Cares For You 00:00 Tools
a) Sweet Bye and Bye b) What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
Shake Sugaree (2)/ Banjo Story, Rattler 00:00 Tools
Elizabeth Story, et al., Honeybabe, Your Papa Cares For You 00:00 Tools
In the Sweet Bye and Bye 00:00 Tools
a)Here Old Rattler Here b) Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow c) George Buck 00:00 Tools
sweet bye and bye/what a friend we have in jesus 00:00 Tools
Medley: Run...Run/Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Medley: Sweet Bye and Bye/What a Friend We Have in Jesus 00:00 Tools
a)Here Old Rattler Here b) Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow c)George Buck 00:00 Tools
Here Old Rattler Here/Sent For My Fiddle, Sent For My Bow/Georgie Buck 00:00 Tools
Run... Run.../Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Run, Run 00:00 Tools
Mama, Nobody's Here But The Baby [Prev Unrealesed] 00:00 Tools
'Til We Meet Again 00:00 Tools
Georgia Buck 00:00 Tools
Medley: Here Old Rattler Here/Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My ... 00:00 Tools
Freight Train - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Delia [#] 00:00 Tools
Untitled,Georgie Buck 00:00 Tools
Medley: Here Old Rattler Here/Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow/George 00:00 Tools
Run... Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
a) Sweet Bye And Bye b) What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
Mama, Nobody's Here But The Baby (1) 00:00 Tools
Wilson Rag - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Shake Sugaree (Original) 00:00 Tools
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I Don't Love Nobody - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Jumpin` Jack 00:00 Tools
Untitled/Georgie Buck [#] 00:00 Tools
Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Mama, Nobody's Here But the Baby [#] 00:00 Tools
Georgie Buck 00:00 Tools
Here old rattler here / Sent for my fiddle sent for my bow (Sent for my fiddle sent for my son) / G 00:00 Tools
Run......Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Graduation March - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Honey Babe Your Papa Cares for You - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Vastopol - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Shake Sugaree/Banjo Story, Rattler 00:00 Tools
Eilzabeth Story, Et Al., Honey Babe, Your Papa Cares For You 00:00 Tools
10. a) Run...Run b) Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
09. a)Here Old Rattler Here b) Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow c) George Buck 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bye and Bye / What a Friend We Have in Jesus 00:00 Tools
09 - a)Here Old Rattler Here b) Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow c) George Buck 00:00 Tools
11. a) Sweet Bye And Bye b) What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
10 - a) Run...Run b) Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
11 - a) Sweet Bye and Bye b) What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
Medley: Run Run/ Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Run... Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Here Old Rattler Here / Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow / George Buck - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bye and Bye / What a Friend We Have in Jesus - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Medley: A) Here Old Rattler Here B) Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow C) George Buck 00:00 Tools
When I Get Home - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Here old rattler here / Sent for my fiddle sent for my bow ( 00:00 Tools
Freight Train (Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten) 00:00 Tools
Spanish Flangdang - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Medley 00:00 Tools
Oh, Babe, It Ain't No Lie - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Spanish Flag Dang 00:00 Tools
Here Old Rattler Here/Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow/George Buck 00:00 Tools
Medley: Sweet Bye and Bye / What a Friend We Have in Jesus 00:00 Tools
Here Old Rattler Here , Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow , George Buck 00:00 Tools
Run Run , Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
a) Here Old Rattler Here b) Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow c) George Buck 00:00 Tools
Jesus Lifted Me (I'm So Glad) 00:00 Tools
Medley: Here Old Rattler Here / Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow / George Buck 00:00 Tools
Oh Babe, It Ain`t No Lie 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bye and Bye , What a Friend We Have in Jesus 00:00 Tools
Run...... Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Mama, Nobody's Here But The Baby [Previously Unreleased Track] 00:00 Tools
here old rattler here 00:00 Tools
Untitled _ George Buck 00:00 Tools
01. Elizabeth Cotten - Shake Sugaree 00:00 Tools
run...run/mama your son done gone 00:00 Tools
George Buck 00:00 Tools
10. Elizabeth Cotten - Mama, Nobody's Here But The Baby 00:00 Tools
02. Elizabeth Cotten - Take Me Back To Baltimore 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad 00:00 Tools
Sweet bye and bye 00:00 Tools
04. Elizabeth Cotten - I'm Going Away 00:00 Tools
14. Elizabeth Cotten - Buck Dance 00:00 Tools
15. Elizabeth Cotten - Ruben 00:00 Tools
Til We Meet Again 00:00 Tools
Medley: Here Old Rattler Here/Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow C) George Buck 00:00 Tools
09. Elizabeth Cotten - Mama, Nobody's Here But The Baby 00:00 Tools
05. Elizabeth Cotten - Fox Chase 00:00 Tools
13. Elizabeth Cotten - Jesus Is Tenderly Calling 00:00 Tools
11. Elizabeth Cotten - Look And Live, My Brother 00:00 Tools
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (Full Album) 00:00 Tools
18. Elizabeth Cotten - Shoot That Buffalo 00:00 Tools
23. Elizabeth Cotten - Delia 00:00 Tools
06. Elizabeth Cotten - Ontario Blues 00:00 Tools
Here old rattler here / Sent for my fiddle sent for my bow (Sent for my fiddle sent for my son) / Ge 00:00 Tools
24. Elizabeth Cotten - Ball The Jack 00:00 Tools
In the Sweet By and By 00:00 Tools
03. Elizabeth Cotten - Washington Blues 00:00 Tools
07. Elizabeth Cotten - Fare You Well, My Darling 00:00 Tools
20. Elizabeth Cotten - Hallelujah, It Is Done 00:00 Tools
08. Elizabeth Cotten - Untitled _ George Buck 00:00 Tools
08. Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train 00:00 Tools
19. Elizabeth Cotten - Boatman Dance 00:00 Tools
01. Elizabeth Cotten - New Year's Eve 00:00 Tools
02. Elizabeth Cotten - Praying Time Will Soon Be Over 00:00 Tools
13. Elizabeth Cotten - When I'm Gone 00:00 Tools
04. Elizabeth Cotten - Gaslight Blues 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
26. Elizabeth Cotten - When The Train Comes Along 00:00 Tools
25. Elizabeth Cotten - Till We Meet Again 00:00 Tools
21. Elizabeth Cotten - Holy Ghost, Unchain My Name 00:00 Tools
"Going Down the Road Feeling Bad" 00:00 Tools
12. Elizabeth Cotten - Jesus Lifted Me 00:00 Tools
22. Elizabeth Cotten - Little Brown Jug 00:00 Tools
Untitled, Georgie Buck 00:00 Tools
Fare You Well, Darling 00:00 Tools
03. Elizabeth Cotten - Time To Stop Your Idling 00:00 Tools
11. a sweet bye and bye 00:00 Tools
Washington Blues / I'm Going Away 00:00 Tools
Oh Babe It Aint No Lie 00:00 Tools
16. Elizabeth Cotten - Oh, Miss Lulie Gal 00:00 Tools
Ain’T Got No Honey Baby Now 00:00 Tools
Freight Train (live) 00:00 Tools
05. Elizabeth Cotten - Jenny 00:00 Tools
Oh, Babe It Ain't No Lie 00:00 Tools
09. george buck 00:00 Tools
Run......Run/Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
07. Elizabeth Cotten - Home Sweet Home 00:00 Tools
09. Elizabeth Cotten - Casey Jones 00:00 Tools
Banjo Story 00:00 Tools
12. Elizabeth Cotten - Wilson Rag 00:00 Tools
10. a runrun b your mama son done gone 00:00 Tools
What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
Run…Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
06. Elizabeth Cotten - Street Blues 00:00 Tools
11. Elizabeth Cotten - Boddie's Song 00:00 Tools
Vastopol/Vestapol 00:00 Tools
When I Lay My Burdens Down 00:00 Tools
10. Elizabeth Cotten - Willie 00:00 Tools
I Don’T Love Nobody 00:00 Tools
Oh Babe It Ain’T No Lie 00:00 Tools
Sweet By and By 00:00 Tools
Vastapol - Elizabeth Cotten (NO) 00:00 Tools
Seeger Story 00:00 Tools
Freight Train (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad 00:00 Tools
Happy New Year Story 00:00 Tools
Here Old Rattler 00:00 Tools
Mamma, Nobody's Here But The Baby 00:00 Tools
Turkey Story 00:00 Tools
Medley: Sweet Bye And Bye/ What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
Honey Baby Your Papa Cares for You 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bye And Bye|What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
Run...Run|Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
A Sweet Bye and Bye 00:00 Tools
01 wilson rag 00:00 Tools
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes 00:00 Tools
Frieght Train 00:00 Tools
Here Old Rattler Here|Sent For My Fiddle Sent For Bow|George Buck 00:00 Tools
a) Run...Run b) Mama Your Son 00:00 Tools
Here Old Rattler Here / Sent For My Fiddle, Sent For My Bow / Georgie Buck 00:00 Tools
Run... Run... / Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
a) Sweet Bye and Bye 00:00 Tools
Medley: Here Old Rattler Here/Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow/George Buck 00:00 Tools
Medley: Run Run/What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
a) Here Old Rattler Here 00:00 Tools
a) Run...Run 00:00 Tools
14 - Elizabeth Cotten - Buck Dance 00:00 Tools
nearer my god to thee 00:00 Tools
Oh, Babe, It Ain't No Lie (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Oh, Miss Julie Gal 00:00 Tools
Elizabeth Story / Honeybabe / Your Papa Cares for You 00:00 Tools
02 Freight Train 00:00 Tools
Oh Baby It Ain't No Lie 00:00 Tools
Blues/Church Story 00:00 Tools
Jeus Is Tenderly Calling 00:00 Tools
05 - Elizabeth Cotten - Fox Chase 00:00 Tools
23 - Elizabeth Cotten - Delia 00:00 Tools
Graduation March (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Wilson Rag (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Vastopol (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Aint Got No Honey Baby Now 00:00 Tools
Shake Sugaree (1967) 00:00 Tools
Untitled/George Buck 00:00 Tools
Medley: Here Old Rattler Here/Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow (Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Son)/Georgia Buck 00:00 Tools
15 - Elizabeth Cotten - Ruben 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah, It Is Done - Elizabeth Cotten 00:00 Tools
a) Sweet Bye and Bye b) What 00:00 Tools
here old rattler here/sent for my fiddle../george buck 00:00 Tools
a)Here Old Rattler Here b) Se 00:00 Tools
Shake Sugaree (live) 00:00 Tools
Fare You Well 00:00 Tools
Wreck Of The '97 00:00 Tools
16 - Elizabeth Cotten - Oh, Miss Lulie Gal 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' Jack (live) 00:00 Tools
Washington Blues (live) 00:00 Tools
Guitar Story (Live) 00:00 Tools
Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Radio Announcement 00:00 Tools
Shake Sugaree / Banjo Story / Rattler 00:00 Tools
Wilson Rag (Ragtime Guitar Legend) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Love Nobody (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
When I Get Home (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Shake Sugeree 00:00 Tools
Ain't got no honey baby 00:00 Tools
Untitled - Georgie Buck 00:00 Tools
Here Old Rattler Here / Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow / George Buck (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bye and Bye / What a Friend We Have in Jesus (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten 00:00 Tools
Shake Shugaree 00:00 Tools
Mama, Nobody's Here But The Baby* 00:00 Tools
03 Going Down The Road Feeling Bad 00:00 Tools
A Runrun B Your Mama Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Medley: Here Old Rattler Here/Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow 00:00 Tools
medley: sweet bye and bye/what a friend... 00:00 Tools
12 Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie 00:00 Tools
08 - elizabeth cotten - untitled,georgie buck 00:00 Tools
Vastopol (live) 00:00 Tools
13 - Elizabeth Cotten - Jesus Is Tenderly Calling 00:00 Tools
Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie (Live) 00:00 Tools
05 Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now 00:00 Tools
Going down the road feeling b 00:00 Tools
08 Vastopol 00:00 Tools
09 - Elizabeth Cotten - Mama, Nobody's Here But The Baby 00:00 Tools
Elizabeth Cotten live at the Euphoria Tavern 1975 00:00 Tools
"I Don't Love Nobody" 00:00 Tools
A)run...run B)mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
25 - Elizabeth Cotten - Till We Meet Again 00:00 Tools
Medley: A)Here Old Rattler Here B) Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow C) George 00:00 Tools
Jesus Lifted Me (Cut) 00:00 Tools
Can't Get A Letter 00:00 Tools
Honey Babe Your Papa Cares for You (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Run... Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Going Down The Road 00:00 Tools
Take Me Back 00:00 Tools
21 - Elizabeth Cotten - Holy Ghost, Unchain My Name 00:00 Tools
20 - Elizabeth Cotten - Hallelujah, It Is Done 00:00 Tools
02-Washington Blues 00:00 Tools
19 - Elizabeth Cotten - Boatman Dance 00:00 Tools
17 - Elizabeth Cotten - Can't Get A Letter From Down The Road 00:00 Tools
07 - Elizabeth Cotten - Fare You Well, My Darling 00:00 Tools
18 - Elizabeth Cotten - Shoot That Buffalo 00:00 Tools
06 - Elizabeth Cotten - Ontario Blues 00:00 Tools
Honey Babe Your Papa Cares Fo 00:00 Tools
24 - Elizabeth Cotten - Ball The Jack 00:00 Tools
12 - Elizabeth Cotten - Jesus Lifted Me 00:00 Tools
Spanish Flangdang (Live) 00:00 Tools
10 - Elizabeth Cotten - Mama, Nobody's Here But The Baby 00:00 Tools
Oh How I Love Jesus 00:00 Tools
Vestapol 00:00 Tools
11 - Elizabeth Cotten - Look & Live, My Brother 00:00 Tools
Medley: A) Sweet Bye And Bye 00:00 Tools
26 - Elizabeth Cotten - When The Train Comes Along 00:00 Tools
14 When I Get Home 00:00 Tools
Ball That Jack 00:00 Tools
Sugaree Shake 00:00 Tools
a)here old rattler here b)sent for my fiddle sent for my bow c)george buck 00:00 Tools
Elizabeth Story 00:00 Tools
I dont love nobody 00:00 Tools
Oh How I Love Jesus (Cuts In) 00:00 Tools
Spanish Flangdang (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Run... Run/Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
a) Here Old Rattler Here b) Sent For My Fiddle c) George Buck 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bye And Bye & What A Friend We Have In Jesus 00:00 Tools
Medley: Here Old Rattler Here/Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow/Geor 00:00 Tools
Ain't Got No Honey Baby, Now 00:00 Tools
06 Graduation March 00:00 Tools
01-Freight Train 00:00 Tools
medley: here old rattler here/sent for my... 00:00 Tools
11-`Til We Meet Again 00:00 Tools
04 I Don't Love Nobody 00:00 Tools
instrumental tune 00:00 Tools
01 - Elizabeth Cotten - Shake Sugaree 00:00 Tools
Sweet Bye and Bye - What a Friend We Have in Jesus 00:00 Tools
Medley: Sweet Bye and Bye/What 00:00 Tools
What A Friend We Have In Jesus (instrumental) 00:00 Tools
02 - Elizabeth Cotten - Take Me Back To Baltimore 00:00 Tools
03-Jumpin` Jack 00:00 Tools
'Til We Meet Again (Live) 00:00 Tools
What A Friend We Have In Jesus (Sung) 00:00 Tools
04 - Elizabeth Cotten - I'm Going Away 00:00 Tools
Elizabeth Cotton & granddaughter - Shake Sugaree (Original) 00:00 Tools
10 Medley: A) Run...Run B) Mama Your Son Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Elizabeth Story / Honey Babe / Your Papa Cares For You 00:00 Tools
sass story 00:00 Tools
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Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was an American blues and folk musician, singer, and songwriter. A self-taught left-handed guitarist, Cotten developed her own original style. Her approach involved using a right-handed guitar (usually in standard tuning), not re-strung for left-handed playing, essentially, holding a right-handed guitar upside down. This position required her to play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb. Her signature alternating bass style has become known as "Cotten picking". Elizabeth Nevills was born in Carrboro, North Carolina, at the border of Chapel Hill, to a musical family. Her parents were George Nevills and Louise Price Nevills. Elizabeth was the youngest of five children. At age seven, Cotten began to play her older brother's banjo. By eight years old, she was playing songs. At the age of 11, after scraping together some money as a domestic helper, she bought her own guitar. Although self-taught, she became very good at playing the instrument. By her early teens she was writing her own songs, one of which, Freight Train, became one of her most recognized. Cotten wrote Freight Train when she saw a train pass by her house on Lloyd Street in Carrboro, North Carolina. Around the age of 13, Cotten began working as a maid along with her mother. Soon after the age of 15, she married Frank Cotten. The couple had a daughter named Lillie, and soon after young Elizabeth gave up guitar playing for family and church. Elizabeth, Frank and their daughter Lillie moved around the eastern United States for a number of years between North Carolina, New York, and Washington, D.C., finally settling in the D.C. area. When Lillie married, Elizabeth divorced Frank and moved in with her daughter and her family. Cotten had retired from the guitar for 25 years, except for occasional church performances. She didn't begin performing publicly and recording until she was in her 60s. She was discovered by the folk-singing Seeger family while she was working for them as a housekeeper. While working briefly in a department store, Cotten helped a child wandering through the aisles find her mother. The child was Penny Seeger, and the mother was composer Ruth Crawford Seeger. Soon after this, Elizabeth again began working as a maid, caring for Ruth Crawford Seeger and Charles Seeger's children, Mike, Peggy, Barbara, and Penny. While working with the Seegers (a voraciously musical family) she remembered her own guitar playing from 40 years prior and picked up the instrument again to relearn almost from scratch. In the later half of the 1950s, Mike Seeger began making bedroom reel to reel recordings of Cotten's songs in her house. These recordings later became the album, Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar, which was released on Folkways Records. Since that album, her songs, especially her signature track, Freight Train—which she wrote when she was 11—have been covered by Peter, Paul, and Mary, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Devendra Banhart, Laura Gibson, Laura Veirs, His Name Is Alive, Doc Watson, and Taj Mahal. Shortly after that first album, she began playing concerts with Mike Seeger, the first of which was in 1960 at Swarthmore College. In the early 1960s, Cotten went on to play concerts with some of the big names in the burgeoning folk revival. Some of these included Mississippi John Hurt, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters at venues such as the Newport Folk Festival and the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife. The new found interest in her work inspired her to write more material to play and in 1967, she released a record created with her grandchildren, which took its name from one of her songs, Shake Sugaree. Using profits from her touring, record releases, and from the many awards given to her for her own contributions to the folk arts, Elizabeth was able to move with her daughter and grandchildren from Washington, D.C., and was able to buy a house in Syracuse, New York. Furthermore she was able to continue touring and releasing records well into her 80s. In 1984, she won the Grammy Award for "Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording" for the album on Arhoolie Records, Elizabeth Cotten Live. When accepting the award in Los Angeles, her comment was, "Thank you. I only wish I had my guitar so I could play a song for you all." In 1989, Cotten was one of 75 influential African-American women included in the photo documentary, I Dream a World. Elizabeth Cotten died in June 1987, at Crouse-Irving Hospital in Syracuse, New York, at the age of 94. Elizabeth Cotten began writing music while toying around with her older brother's banjo. She was left-handed so she played the banjo in reverse position. Later, when she transferred her songs to the guitar, she formed a unique style, since on the banjo the uppermost string is not a bass string, but a short high pitched string called a drone string. This required her to adopt a unique style for the guitar. She first played with the "all finger down strokes" like a banjo. Later, she evolved into a unique style of finger picking. Her signature, alternating bass style is now known as Cotten picking. Her finger picking techniques influenced many other musicians. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.