Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes

Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes

Track Listings

1. Wilson Rag

2. Freight Train

3. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad

4. I Don't Love Nobody

5. Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now

6. Graduation March

7. Honey Babe Your Papa Cares for You

8. Vastopol

9. Medley: Here Old Rattler Here/Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow/George

10. Medley: Run...Run/Mama Your Son Done Gone

11. Medley: Sweet Bye and Bye/What a Friend We Have in Jesus

12. Oh, Babe, It Ain't No Lie

13. Spanish Flangdang

14. When I Get Home

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
This complete reissue of Elizabeth Cotten's first LP is best known for containing the original recording of her classic Freight Train. The breadth of her repertoire and endearing style have captivated generations of guitarists and fans of traditional American music.

Freight Train includes guitar and banjo accompanied songs and tunes and features Mike Seeger's updated notes that include comments on Cotten's life, musical style, and song lyrics. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Tracks:

Wilson Rag
Freight Train
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
I Don't Love Nobody
Aint' Got No Honey Baby Now
Graduation March
Honey Babe Your Papa Cares For You
Vastopol
a) Here Old Rattler Here
a) Run...Run
a) Sweet Bye and Bye
Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
Spanish Flang Dang
When I Get Home

Album Description

This complete reissue of Elizabeth Cotten's first LP is best known for containing the original recording of her classic Freight Train. The breadth of her repertoire and endearing style have captivated generations of guitarists and fans of traditional American music.

Freight Train includes guitar and banjo accompanied songs and tunes and features Mike Seeger's updated notes that include comments on Cotten's life, musical style, and song lyrics.

Customer Reviews:

great.......2007-07-12

I really enjoy this cd. It's doesn't have a lot of singing, and the songs do still sound like they were the original recordings. If you don't like songs that sound like that this isn't the cd for you. If you are an Elizabeth Cotten fan, then this is a great cd for you.

An American Treasure.......2005-12-30

What can I say? Elizabeth Cotten was one of the best guitar players of all time and almost no one knows about her.I have enormous respect for all the great guitarists from all genres of modern music and to my ears no one comes close,except maybe Mississippi John Hurt, to her fluid and gentle approach to the guitar.
And to think this was recorded in her bedroom instead of a studio gives this disc a refreshing sound,just like she was sitting on her bed and playing just for you.Great just to listen to and essential to anyone who is a fan of acoustic guitar playing at its finest.
Freight Train is not just a classic song but it sounds like it has always been here like the mountains and the sky.I love this disc and everything about it.Essential and highly recommended.

Gotta love it........2002-12-12

Elizabeth does a wonderful job here. Don't expect a lot from the recording itself but the songs are great American History. Great background music.

Freight Train and other songs.......2002-04-29

When I first heard this CD I was astounded not just by the
technical ability of Libba Cotten, but also by the sheer
spiritual feeling she gives to the songs. She also plays really
gently, never overemphasising anything.

Move Over John Hurt.......2002-02-26

These phenomenal songs were recorded by Mike Seeger in Elizabeth Cotten's bedroom. Elizabeth Cotten had stopped playing guitar for over twenty years when the Seeger family "discovered" her (she was working as their maid!)

Cotten's completely "by ear" playing is among the most subtle and harmonically nuanced in "roots folk music". Strangely, she does not get anywhere near the attention of Mississipi John Hurt, though she is a far better and more interesting guitar player (this is not to knock John Hurt, who is also great.)

Cotten was able to pick up everything from blues, to ragtime, to the UNC "graduation march" just by listening. At risk of sounding cliched, I believe she was a genius who was never fully able to realize her potential. But at least we have these wonderful songs to give us a sense of it.

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