Elizabeth Cotten

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1958 - Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar

01 Wilson Rag 1:40
02 Freight Train 2:46
03 Going Down the Road Feeling Bad 2:12
04 I Don't Love Nobody 1:14
05 Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now 0:57
06 Graduation March 2:33
07 Honey Babe Your Papa Cares for You 2:15
08 Vastopol 2:11
09 Here Old Rattler Here / Sent for My Fiddle Sent For My Bow / George Buck 3:48
10 Run......Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone 2:19
11 Sweet Bye and Bye / What a Friend We Have in Jesus 3:02
12 Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie 4:43
13 Spanish Flang Dang 2:51
14 When I Get Home 2:23
1967 - Volume 2: Shake Sugaree

01 Shake Sugaree 05:02
02 Take Me Back to Baltimore 01:59
03 Washington Blues 03:37
04 I'm Going Away 03:25
05 Fox Chase 03:42
06 Ontario Blues 03:45
07 Fare You Well, My Darling 02:02
08 Untitled / George Buck 03:01
09 Mama, Nobody's Here but the Baby 00:53
10 Mama, Nobody's Here but the Baby 01:36
11 Look and Live, My Brother 01:52
12 Jesus Lifted Me 02:08
13 Jesus Is Tenderly Calling 01:39
14 Buck Dance 01:52
15 Ruben 02:13
16 Oh, Miss Lulie Gal 01:31
17 Can't Get a Letter from Down the Road 01:44
18 Shoot That Buffalo 01:40
19 Boatman Dance 01:48
20 Hallelujah, It Is Done 01:34
21 Holy Ghost, Unchain My Name 01:25
22 Little Brown Jug 02:22
23 Delia 02:12
24 Ball the Jack 02:34
25 Till We Meet Again 02:03
26 When the Train Comes Along 02:45
1979 - Volume 3: When I'm Gone

01 New Year's Eve
02 Praying Time Will Soon Be Over 03:15
03 Time To Stop Your Idling
04 Gaslight Blues 04:50
05 Jenny 02:42
06 Street Blues 02:17
07 Home Sweet Home 02:24
08 Freight Train 03:11
09 Casey Jones 01:49
10 Willie 05:08
11 Boddie's Song 02:18
12 Wilson Rag 04:53
13 When I'm Gone 04:47
1998 - Live!

01 Freight Train 04:55
02 Washington Blues 04:36
03 Jumpin' Jack 03:29
04 Shake Sugaree 04:28
05 Shake Sugaree / Banjo Story, Rattler 05:23
06 Vastopol 04:51
07 Guitar Story 04:19
08 Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie 07:13
09 Elizabeth Story, et al. / Honey Babe, Your Papa Cares For You 07:56
10 Spanish Flangdang 02:44
11 'Til We Meet Again 01:23

Books

1979 - Sheldon Harris. Blues Who's Who. New York: Da Capa Press.
1986 - Bruce Bastin. Red River Blues. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
1986 - Phil Hood. Artists of American Folk Music: The Legends of Traditional Folk, the Stars of the Sixties, the Virtuosi of New Acoustic Music. New York: Quill.
1992 - Jessie Carney Smith. Notable Black American Women. Detroit: Gale Research.
1993 - Jessie Carney Smith. Epic Lives: One Hundred Black Women Who Made a Difference. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. 1993 - Lawrence Cohn. Nothing but the Blues: The Music and the Musicians. New York: Abbeville Press.
1995 - Cecilia Conway. African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1996 - Brian Escamilla. Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music. Vol. 16.
2001 - John Cohen & Greil Marcus. There Is No Eye: John Cohen Photographs. New York: PowerHouse Books.
2001 - Robert Santelli. American Roots Music. New York: Harry N. Abrams.
2002 - Michael Wenberg. Elizabeth's Song. Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words Publishing.
2018 - Laura Veirs. Libba. Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-1-4521-4857-1.
2020 - David Menconi. Step it Up and Go. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-5935-0.

Video

1960 - Masters of the Country Blues: Elizabeth Cotten and Jesse Fuller
1976 - Me and Stella: A Film about Elizabeth Cotten
1980 - Homemade American Music
1985 - Libba Cotten: An Interview and Presentation Ceremony
1991 - Mike Seeger and Elizabeth Cotten 1992 - Jesse Fuller and Elizabeth Cotten
1994 - Elizabeth Cotten with Mike Seeger
1994 - Legends of Traditional Fingerstyle Guitar
1994 - The Downhome Blues
1994 - John Fahey, Elizabeth Cotten: Rare Performances and Interviews
2002 - The Guitar of Elizabeth Cotten
2003 - Elizabeth Cotten in Concert, 1969, 1978, and 1980
2005 - Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger. Judy Collins and Elizabeth Cotten

YouTube

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"Freight Train"

"Washington Blues" and "I'm Going Away"

"Old Woman Keeps Tellin' Her Lies On Me"

"Graduation March"

"Wilson Rag"

"Vestapol"