Vestapol - Elizabeth Cotten

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10 жыл бұрын

Taken from Vestapol 13019 Elizabeth Cotten in Concert. This DVD presents three concert performances by Elizabeth Cotten recorded in 1969, 1978 and 1980. Recollections of her life and music are prompted in the 1978 concert by interviewer Mike Seeger, who played a major role in recording Cotten's repertoire. Mike is also close by in the 1969 and 1980 performances.
From 1969: Freight Train, What a Friend We Have In Jesus, Ruben, Vestapol, Washington Blues, A Jig and Spanish Flang Dang.
From 1978: Freight Train, Wilson Rag, Georgia Buck, Rattler, Spanish Flang Dang, Judy's Got a Rambling Mind, Mama, Your Son's Done Gone, Wreck of the Old 97, Jesus Is Tenderly Calling Today, Vestapol, Buck Dance, Oh, Babe, It Ain't No Lie, Ontario Blues, Mama, Where's the Baby and others.
From 1980: Graduation March, Freight Train, Spanish Flang Dang and Shake Sugaree.
For details go to: www.guitarvideos.com/#!/Eliza...

Пікірлер: 125

@user-tu4et9bv2l 7 күн бұрын

Ну кто здесь от дяди Сережи?

@T-sz7oi 6 күн бұрын

пенкина?

@gwynbleidd85 6 күн бұрын

@@T-sz7oiот пенкина, видимо ты😂

@T-sz7oi 6 күн бұрын

@@gwynbleidd85 а чем тебе пенкин не нравится?

@cringeexpert1851 7 күн бұрын

Спасибо, Минаев, хорошая композиция

@Ltrsandnmbrs 2 күн бұрын

Elizabeth Cotton is not only an incredible player and person, but she also introduced me to Cotton Pickin’ style and changed playing guitar for me forever. Playing with just 2 fingers (or 3 if you have to) made it so much easier for me, so I just wanted to say thank you to Elizabeth. ❤️

@calebandersen4334 7 ай бұрын

This woman deeply moves me. I strongly encourage everyone to give Elizabeth Cotten a thorough look, she is a wonderful human ❤

@rhondabailey9238 5 ай бұрын

KZfaq channel "Joe Lindsley/Journalist" talks about this 30 minutes into his February 15, 2024 video called **'The Land Of The Free: "This is the realest thing I ever done.....* 🩵👍

@GageFilms Жыл бұрын

This one of the most beautiful song I have ever heard. You can hear a soul and love for the world behind each move she makes.

@vikingbiff 9 жыл бұрын

left handed up side down guitarist "SMO'KIN"! luv you Elizabeth!

@sleuthentertainment5872 9 ай бұрын

The essence of Carolina flows from the fingers of Elizabeth Cotten right through the heart: the wind over the Blue Ridge Mountains, the waters of the French Broad River...and her voice breathes the old but always powerful nature... You can't discover artists like this today...

@alexnetherton 5 жыл бұрын

The thing is, these old artists are leaving us for another land, and taking their talent with them. It is up to the young people to take up the tradition and pass it along.

@bobgreen8142 Жыл бұрын

At 67 I'm trying, but realise I have far more behind me than in front...

@rylanhudson9319 Жыл бұрын

@@bobgreen8142I’m 17 (very soon to be 18) and I try my hardest to keep music like this alive by playing as much as I can and sharing what I can’t. With that being said I believe the difference in the lives of generations will affect how people play and express themselves through music will change as the rest of the world does

@TheUther1 10 жыл бұрын

This very guitar is behind glass just inside the main entrance to the American History Museum in Washington, DC

@docbailey3265 8 жыл бұрын

Yep. I was pleasantly surprised to see it on display. She had darn near worn the top off of the guitar from her playing.

@direfranchement 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful.

@omfgitspyrogirl 3 жыл бұрын

this makes me happy to hear

@brandonabbott6225 3 жыл бұрын

Just beggin to be played

@timothypnolan 3 жыл бұрын

Im sure there are songs left in it, but they all belong to Libba.

@drapeblind 2 жыл бұрын

Just magical. No words can suit this song.

@bobkaufman9263 10 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Cotton is truly amazing.Wish she was still with us, along with Pete Seeger. And playing upside down to boot.

@adamp3223 4 жыл бұрын

Did she teach Pete Seeger?

@banjochris 4 жыл бұрын

@@adamp3223 Not how to play but he would have learned Freight Train from her either directly or through his half-siblings Mike and Peggy. Cotten worked for the Seeger family as essentially a housekeeper and Mike and Peggy discovered that she could play guitar and banjo, which is how she started becoming "known" musically.

@carlbowden4712 5 ай бұрын

That closeup of the pickin hand is great!!

@teddy1066 3 ай бұрын

Vastapol, is a corruption of Sevastopol. An open tuning the old blues pickers used to love. Don’t hear that tuning much anymore but it was very popular in the 1910s-1930s. Vastopol tuning was popular with pickers and slide guitarists.

@AnthonyM1 3 жыл бұрын

Showed this to my 12 year old grandson...he is now trying to play it!!

@artsymamanana 5 ай бұрын

He would like Shake Sugaree from her. She even has one with her granddaughter singing it.

@bruceb5481 9 ай бұрын

I'm so glad to have found this wonderful musician on UTube.

@iwashita203rd 10 жыл бұрын

素晴らしい… ２フィンガーだ。伝説ですね。 thank you～♪

@SergeUnplugged Жыл бұрын

Legendary performance indeed

@scrappylor 6 жыл бұрын

I am so impressed !

@rhondabailey9238 5 ай бұрын

i can imagine a summer drive... over rollercoaster hills... thru tall trees of shimmer light....listening to THIS music 💙💛wafting thru the soft breeze

@jackwilliams3156 4 ай бұрын

I drive to work in rural Arkansas, and when I drive through the rolling hills I listen to this music. It is beautiful out here.

@rhondabailey9238 4 ай бұрын

Awesome @jackwilliams3156 🎸🌳🌄🌲🎶

@mo2heaven704 5 ай бұрын

Literally the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard

@rodsreel 7 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth must have learned this sitting on an ol porch with a borrowed guitar, birds and crickets as a backing. Man this is tyhe real deal right here what a feel for the guitar. Cheers fae the Scottish Highlands.

@philipchung1029 6 жыл бұрын

rodsreel she grew in a musical family. Check out her bio. It’s pretty interesting. She basically quit the guitar then relearned it when she was like 60 or something

@1105django 10 жыл бұрын

That's the way I play, and having been told of Elizabeth Cotton years ago it was a real pleasure to see this. Of course playing left handed upside down, and never seeing anyone do it, I was as lost as anyone else, I do get the same sound though.

@randybock82 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@TheSpitacular 3 жыл бұрын

Wow that was beautiful.

@pevvyndrake 10 ай бұрын

True OG. Hearing future renditions like john fahey full fingered and she is pulling off the same scope of sound plucking with just her thumb and fore finger. Badass

@RationalYouth 6 ай бұрын

And upside down to boot.

@bradgotch 9 жыл бұрын

Thats mighty fine finger pickin!

@DebraDevi 7 жыл бұрын

So amazing!

@belizern 8 ай бұрын

Amazing

@carayaportus80 3 жыл бұрын

La gente de color son talento puro, Sin ellos la música No sería lo que es hoy Aporte valioso ala historia de la Música ya que ellos son Música

@ijemand5672 2 жыл бұрын

@BarryPennock 10 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!

@jh58 Жыл бұрын

Another wonderful old guitar player who learned to play upside down.

@kaecake9575 Жыл бұрын

The good side of KZfaq ✨

@pupusaslordking5617 2 жыл бұрын

Dude. Its just like. Fuck.

@helenlizzystewart4908 6 жыл бұрын

damn fine job she has done

@nicolen.9642 5 жыл бұрын

Love this great Lady!!! Awesome!

@TheHifromjapan 10 жыл бұрын

Try and play the bass with your forefinger....she was amazing!

@ptalbany 10 жыл бұрын

as a bass player that is the finger I use but I know what your saying

@teddy1066 3 ай бұрын

If you like this, you’ll also love Blind Blake and Blind Boy Fuller. This is pure Piedmont blues

@reddrw1 9 жыл бұрын

IMPRESSED

@Pezzotti1 10 жыл бұрын

Complimenti.........

@felixthelmocevallosmorales41 Жыл бұрын

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, nacida Elizabeth Neville, (Chapel Hill, 5 de enero de 1893 - 29 de junio de 1987) fue una cantante, guitarrista y compositora estadounidense de música folk y blues. Desarrolló una peculiar técnica de tocar la guitarra que es conocida como el "Cotten picking", en honor a su nombre.

@Mu_de_Aries 2 жыл бұрын

Te Amo🦋

@jean-pierre7264 9 ай бұрын

🙏🙏🙏🙏

@adamsteffen6548 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ed Fromohio for taking me here!

@mjrlormans Жыл бұрын

Sweet 😋

@shunkato6726 5 жыл бұрын

ジョンフェイヒーが影響受けたとサイトで見たことがありますが納得しました

@jorguesoto4828 2 жыл бұрын

Si tocó algún día así.seria .

@akustikan455 2 жыл бұрын

Waoww👍

@robert32634 3 жыл бұрын

sounds like a whole orchestra

@mapsan1 8 жыл бұрын

It's so easy you get the hang of it- amasing - ...

@Zeal808 2 жыл бұрын

The interviewer is a bit cringe 😬 but so happy Elizabeth is documented.

@Kohntarkosz Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure I was aware that you could just flip the guitar over and play "upside down" like this, when I first started playing. I remember telling my mom I needed a left handed guitar, because I'm a leftie, and she said "Oh, no, it doesn't matter, you can play right handed". I knew about Hendrix flipping right handed guitars over, but I knew he usually restrung them like left handed guitars (so that the high E would be the closest to the floor). I wonder how things would have turned out if I flipped the guitar over and did like Ms. Cotton here, or Albert King, Otis Rush, Doyle Bramhall II, or Coco Montoya did.

@claymor8241 Жыл бұрын

I knew a guy back in the day played upside down and he was really good though it does rule out quite a lot of things that other guitarists tend to play. Also there are lots of lefties who just play right handed such as Robert Fripp, Mark Knopfler, Joe Perry, Gary Moore.

@phillipkarpowich3437 6 ай бұрын

Upside-down and backward❤

@experimentalel7 3 жыл бұрын

insane.

@donmcmahan 6 жыл бұрын

I know that my thumb is better at playing the treble strings...if I thought my first finger could do the bass (as if) I would reverse my strings right now.

@theshovster8505 6 жыл бұрын

Wish they’d loose the close-ups on her hands, I just like to watch “her” play

@theliquor6423 5 жыл бұрын

4 “people” downvoted this song, what’s wrong with the world lol

@CptEtgar 2 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@startervisions 6 жыл бұрын

Did Jimi Hendrix ever see this performance?

@Fritz3619 8 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a John Fahey tune??

@wanderinrambler6200 8 жыл бұрын

John Fahey did a version of this song called "poor boy and a long ways from home" and he also was featured on this show

@PHJimY 7 жыл бұрын

John also calls it "Siege of Sevastopol." It's an old tune and open D tuning is often called "Vastopol" tuning after this song. Libba shortened it to Vastopol or sometimes Bastopol.

@tylerbrandon460 5 жыл бұрын

I believe the original tune "poor boy long ways from home" of this is from 1926. I forgot by who.

@eightbighillman 10 жыл бұрын

First thinking she'd reversed strings setting, then I was wrong.

@adamp3223 4 жыл бұрын

She did. Strings are reversed, AND the guitar is turned around, so it's hard to know what's up

@banjochris 4 жыл бұрын

@@adamp3223 Strings are NOT reversed. She's playing a right-handed guitar left-handed without changing the strings. So her left forefinger is playing the bass and left thumb the melody.

@Ayo.Ajisafe Жыл бұрын

@@banjochris I'm confused. Are her bass strings not closest to her feet? Treble strings closest to the head? Is that not the reverse of how guitar is normally played? I get you saying she's playing a right handed guitar left handed but to do that you have to turn the guitar upside down and the strings are in reverse order.

@banjochris Жыл бұрын

@@Ayo.Ajisafe Right but the guitar is just flipped over, reversing the strings. The strings haven’t been put on “backwards” like left-handed players usually do. If you did both of those things the strings would go back to “normal.”

@Ayo.Ajisafe Жыл бұрын

@@banjochris I get you. I get the distinction. Honestly at first i thought it was a bit of a pedantic distinction but given that we are speaking about a legend, I understand why you did so.

@TheDennzio 2 жыл бұрын

holy cow upside down

@davepowell7168 Жыл бұрын

Crimea, Gallipoli, Black Sea music of the Dardanelles?

@natkernell1438 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like John Fahey/John Fahey sounds like her

@robwhite6386 Жыл бұрын

at times, the latter, and I'm a huge John Fahey fan. This lady is an amazingly good guitarist.

@MegaSuperCritic 6 жыл бұрын

she has the hands of a young woman but the face of an old, defeated one.

@gratefultedd969 10 ай бұрын

Is this open em tuning?

@maryhinge128 2 жыл бұрын

her geetar is upside the down!

@damianmaynard2592 4 жыл бұрын

Hang on a minute!! Anyone else here the Rolling stones "prodigal son" here?

@portoflongbeach 4 жыл бұрын

Same guitar tuning, open D. Prodigal Son came from the Rev. Robert Wilkins, who also recorded it in the '20s as a blues number called That's No Way to Get Along.

@damianmaynard2592 4 жыл бұрын

@@portoflongbeach Wow! hey, and thanks for that. That opens up another musical web for me.