(January 2021) Episode 312 is ELIZABETH COTTEN. If you like guitar pickin’ you’ll love her. And a great story. Cotten taught herself to play an unorthodox way: left-handed but with the strings in the right-handed position, so her fingers did the bass and her thumb the melody, for a style aptly called “Cotten picking.” She learned as a youth, gave it up for decades, and then started performing and recording in her 60s, influencing many in the folk revival.
Favorite song: Freight Train
Favorite instrumental song: New Year’s Eve
Compared to expectations: ↑
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