jojo25 - Posted - 09/17/2008:  07:45:11

Hi all,

don't recollect that anyone here at BHO has mentioned this link

http://www.folkstreams.net/film,153

free video...this particular one on Mike Seeger is good. I was particularly touched by the fact the Elizabeth Cotton was only "discovered" because she just happened to be working as a servant for the Seeger family...if not for that, who knows if we would ever have been blessed with her music

how many more folks are/were out there that are brilliant jewels hiding in the wilderness?

I have just started to explore this link, but I thought it worth sharing

Drop thumbs, not bombs

Joe

Brentk5s - Posted - 09/17/2008:  09:51:23

Video quality on this particular link is iffy but well worth it!

haiku - Posted - 09/18/2008:  04:00:27

I don't recall seeing this particular video - thanks for the link.

On folkstream, "Catching the Music" & "Appalachian Journey" are two videos to see (amongst others)!

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wrangler - Posted - 09/20/2008:  12:09:09

Pete told me that Elizabeth Cotton worked for them when the Seeger kids were young and they lived near Washington DC. He said that after dinner when Elizabeth was getting ready to do the dishes, the kids would offer to do the dishes if she would play the upside down guitar and sing. Pete said that it worked every time.

Elizabeth Cotton learned to play her father's guitar. He was right handed but she was left handed and since it was her father's guitar, she could not restring it, so she just turned it upside down.

Mike

To peace, happiness, banjos that stay in tune and people likewise

vernob - Posted - 10/03/2008:  13:48:48

I just love this story. I remember hearing it years ago when I learned to play "Freight Train"on the guitar. "Libba" Cotton was a wonderful musician that almost was missed, almost forgotten. Think of all the great players we will never know. It makes you pause.

Bruce Vernon

"A gentleman is a man who knows how to play the banjo, but chooses not to." - Mark Twain

"Don''t worry about mistakes. There aren''t any." - Miles Davis