Thanks Cat. Excellent post. I will seek out Libby Cotton. Dato
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Catalina, thanks for writing about Elizabeth Cotten. Freight train is one of the first tunes I learned to play fingerstyle. There’s a good video on YouTube of her playing that song. Amazing. Open D tuning.
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Fantastic posts today, Catalina, DROI, Robert, John Baird, and others. Thanks for enriching my day with your writing, thinking, and feeling.
“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight.” – Jack Gilbert
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Roger, I did not delineate the clause in my sentence properly today 1/14/22. As I spelled out on my OTP 1/10/22, Cotten plays “Freight Train” with her guitar in standard configuration, tuned down a whole step (low to high: DGCFAD). If you use light-gauge strings—or don’t feel like tuning down—one can play the song in standard tuning which is probably what you learned EADGBE using the first position C, G, E chords and the F barre chord. She did many other songs in open tunings such as Sebatopol tuning. DADF#AD and Spanish Fandang in open G, which is DGDGBD. It is great that her songs have been video taped and documented.
Thanks Cat. Excellent post. I will seek out Libby Cotton. Dato
Catalina, thanks for writing about Elizabeth Cotten. Freight train is one of the first tunes I learned to play fingerstyle. There’s a good video on YouTube of her playing that song. Amazing. Open D tuning.
Fantastic posts today, Catalina, DROI, Robert, John Baird, and others. Thanks for enriching my day with your writing, thinking, and feeling.
Dbd: There is a good interview of Rita Felski in the :Los Angeles Review of Books at https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/passionate-affinities-a-conversation-with-rita-felski/ I like what she is doing to mix up the authority of critique–like who’s authority–depending on my “mood” and “disposition”- which isn’t very scholarly. I personally like fissures.
“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight.” – Jack Gilbert
Roger, I did not delineate the clause in my sentence properly today 1/14/22. As I spelled out on my OTP 1/10/22, Cotten plays “Freight Train” with her guitar in standard configuration, tuned down a whole step (low to high: DGCFAD). If you use light-gauge strings—or don’t feel like tuning down—one can play the song in standard tuning which is probably what you learned EADGBE using the first position C, G, E chords and the F barre chord. She did many other songs in open tunings such as Sebatopol tuning. DADF#AD and Spanish Fandang in open G, which is DGDGBD. It is great that her songs have been video taped and documented.