Elizabeth Cotten

Elizabeth Cotten

Elizabeth Cotten

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Freight Train
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Shake Sugaree
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Till We Meet Again
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Washington Blues
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Going Down the Road Feeling Bad

Albums

  • Shake Sugaree

    Sep 2004 • 26 songs

  • Live!

    Jan 1998 • 11 songs

  • Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes

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Elizabeth Cotten

Biography

Elizabeth Cotten was among the most influential guitarists to surface during the roots music revival era, her wonderfully expressive and dexterous fingerpicking style a major inspiration to the generations of players who followed in her wake. Cotten was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the early weeks of 1893. After first picking up the banjo at the age of eight, she soon moved on to her brother's guitar, laying it flat on her lap and over time developing her picking pattern and eventually her chording. By the age of 12 she was working as a domestic, and three years l...
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