gotagirlcrush:

Got a girl crush on: Elizabeth Cotten

I can’t stop pushing play on this. Elizabeth wrote “Freight Train” when she was a teenager in North Carolina. She was later taken in as a domestic helper by the folk music Seeger family where they encouraged her re-discovery of music and made bedroom recordings of her songs. Her musical career didn’t really start until her late 60s. It’s a fascinating story, and one worth reading up on!

Can’t stop playing this song! Reading up on this woman. Unbelievable!!
Sunday Feb 2 @ 04:21pm
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    This is beautiful
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    playing this song! Reading...on this woman. Unbelievable!!
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    I’ve never heard
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    guitar sound this way?
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    young ethnomusicologist, I feel like I should point out some of the issues of this brief write-up. Firstly, she
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    - “Freight Train”
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