Dr. Dani Sanchez<p>The legendary blueswoman Elizabeth Cotten with “Shake Sugaree” (<a href="https://youtu.be/p66KebI8aZM?si=-_Ks-Iro02sSoI_J" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/p66KebI8aZM?si=-_Ks-I</span><span class="invisible">ro02sSoI_J</span></a>). Unlike a lot of guitarists, she primarily plays with finger picking AND she’s a lefty who plays the guitar righty-style <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroView" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroView</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethCotten</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blues</span></a></p>
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Moonshine Brigade<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://metalhead.club/@lpl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lpl</span></a></span> wants us to have a <a href="https://musicworld.social/tags/BlastFromThePast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlastFromThePast</span></a> this <a href="https://musicworld.social/tags/TuneTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TuneTuesday</span></a> 🚀</p><p>Not sure when this recording was made, somewhere in the '60s.. Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train</p><p>* <a href="https://youtu.be/R2DCWfBkMSI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/R2DCWfBkMSI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>* No YT tracking link</p><p><a href="https://musicworld.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://metalhead.club/@Kitty" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Kitty</span></a></span> <a href="https://musicworld.social/tags/blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blues</span></a> <a href="https://musicworld.social/tags/country" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>country</span></a> <a href="https://musicworld.social/tags/americana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>americana</span></a> <a href="https://musicworld.social/tags/oldtime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oldtime</span></a> <a href="https://musicworld.social/tags/ElizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethCotten</span></a> <a href="https://musicworld.social/tags/GuitarPicking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GuitarPicking</span></a></p>
Dan Kletter 🥑<p><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> Born on this day in 1895, <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/ElizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethCotten</span></a> taught herself to play the guitar and banjo as a child. She was left-handed yet played a guitar for a right-hander, meaning she played everything upside down. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPibSxgIyw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=JAPibSxgIy</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p>
Black-Eyed Katydid<p>Elizabeth Cotten - Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar (Folkways, 2018 reissue, first released 1958)</p><p>Carrboro NC's own, a lefty self-taught on upside-down guitar, who influenced the likes of Doc Watson. Recorded in her house by Mike Seeger.</p><p><a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/ElizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethCotten</span></a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/folk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folk</span></a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blues</span></a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vinyl</span></a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/BEKrecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BEKrecords</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/vinylrecords" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vinylrecords</span></a></span></p>
BBC6Music 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot<p>🔊 <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BBC6Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC6Music</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/6MusicArtistInResidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>6MusicArtistInResidence</span></a></p><p>Elizabeth Cotten:<br> 🎵 Wilson Rag</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ElizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethCotten</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0f17rxB5YPXL5Pab3Yzsv0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/track/0f17rxB</span><span class="invisible">5YPXL5Pab3Yzsv0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://elizabethcotten.bandcamp.com/track/wilson-rag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">elizabethcotten.bandcamp.com/t</span><span class="invisible">rack/wilson-rag</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Bandcamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bandcamp</span></a></p>
La Historieta Musical (Jesús)<p>Hace más de 70 años la perdida de una niña provocó uno de los más sorprendentes descubrimientos de la historia de la música.</p><p>Tanto, que las consecuencias de aquel suceso aún latiendo en el alma de muchas músicas.</p><p>Hoy, en <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LaHistorietaMusical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaHistorietaMusical</span></a>, la historia de Elizabeth Cotten.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethCotten</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blues</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/folk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Country" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Country</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peggyseeger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peggyseeger</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peteseeger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peteseeger</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freighttrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freighttrain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LaHistorietaMusical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaHistorietaMusical</span></a></p>
Dr. Dani Sanchez<p>Elizabeth Cotten (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played her 1950 Martin 00-18 guitar upside down and strung for a right-handed player. This allowed her to alternate bass lines into her songs. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroView" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroView</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethCotten</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blues</span></a></p>
Xris<p>Elizabeth Cotten - "When I'm Gone" (1979)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ElizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethCotten</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Folkways" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folkways</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/folkmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folkmusic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vinyl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/vinylrecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vinylrecords</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/vinylrecords" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vinylrecords</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/6erl8T8pozs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/6erl8T8pozs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dr. Dani Sanchez<p>Elizabeth Cotten (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played the guitar upside down and strung for a right-handed player. This allowed her to alternate bass lines into her songs. <br> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroView" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroView</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethCotten</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blues</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a></p>
Dr. Dani Sanchez<p>Some Blues ladies and their guitars: Memphis Minnie (1937 National Spanish), Beverly Watkins (Fender Squire), and Elizabeth Cotten (1950 Martin 00-18)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroView" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroView</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MemphisMinnie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MemphisMinnie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeverlyWatkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeverlyWatkins</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethCotten</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blues</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guitargear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guitargear</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a></p>
Crowstone<p>Just a little more blues</p><p>This is Elizabeth Cotten playing Vestapol. Originally "The Siege of Sevastopol", this instrumental was popular in late 18th/early 19th century America. Supposedly it was in a pamphlet included with guitar sales. It popularized open d - known as 'Vestapol tuning'.</p><p>Cotten was left-handed, holding her guitar upside down - picking the melody with her thumb & the base with her fingers.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4EA8DNjxx4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=S4EA8DNjxx</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/vestapol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vestapol</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/elizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elizabethCotten</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blues</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/fingerpicking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fingerpicking</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/guitar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guitar</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a></p>
Kinetograph<p>American folk and blues musician Elizabeth Cotten <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ElizabethCotten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethCotten</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FolkMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FolkMusic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BluesMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BluesMusic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a></p>
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