Freight Train -- Stefan Grossman and Christian Marsh at the Stock Camp, National Folk Festival 2012
An audience request, with background story about left-handed blues guitarist and songwriter Elizabeth Cotten. Stefan starts playing 2 minutes in (2:00). Christian Marsh joins him with improvised harp solos in different jazz styles. American acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and singer, music producer and educator Stefan Williams and fantastic NSW harmonica player Christian Marsh at the Stockman's Camp during the 2012 National Folk Festival. http://www.guitarvideos.com/ http://www.christianmarsh.com/ Stefan has been touring Australia with Arelmedia Management: http://www.arelmedia.com.au/
About Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth Cotten was a self-taught blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter. born January 5, 1893 in Carrboro, North Carolina died June 29, 1987 in Syracuse, New York (Aged 94) She developed her own style of playing left-handed by holding a normally tuned guitar upside down so she played the melodies with her thumb and the bass lines with her fingers. Her style of playing became known as "Cotten picking". Cotten wrote most of her music in her early teens and earlier (she wrote "Freight...
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