Elizabeth Cotten guitar portrait

Elizabeth Cotten

5 January, 1893 – 29 June, 1987
When she was just a child, Elizabeth Cotten penned "Freight Train", with prescient lyrics, foreshadowing the wisdom beyond her years. After a chance encounter with the Seeger family decades later, her first recordings sprouted to life when she was 65 years of age.

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