Elizabeth Cotten- Honey Babe Your Papa Cares For You.

[@franzllattner]

The reflection on her face is priceless, knowing althogh she is doing something outstanding ,no none will really care.

[@stonedan0]

It's cool how flipping the guitar upside down to play left-handed gives you an inverted blues sound with the high and low notes. Unique

[@nathanael8612]

I know, I can imagine her playing that way gives her a leverage if wanna say that on the guitar that is hard to achieve when you are a player the other way. Shes a amazing player an her sound is a sound I could live in.

[@vedantsridhar8378]

Mr Stone, yes

[@pupusaslordking5617]

yeah, it sounds like the thumb is acting as a sort of muffler filter type of device. It definitely gives her an advantage on most people because of the natural tone youre gonna get from knowing how to play upside down.

[@omnirath]

Just cryin right now, the look of Seeger staring at her in awe sum it all

[@toughlikerocks]

You can tell the man just absolutely LOVED music. Most of the guests on this show elicited a similar reaction from him. The Roscoe Holcomb one comes to mind. He's just leaning back in a chair watching him play with a look on his face that says "Yup, this is as good as it gets"

[@oneidawolf776]

Incredible stuff. I am a left handed guitarist too and this isn't easy stuff even for someone with young spry fingers. Elizabeth is a legend. Hands down the best fingerpicking lefty.

[@rooseveltdavis9559]

The legendary Elizabeth Cotton. Wow,what a wonderful musician!

[@samlupo100]

And she was a wonderful God loving woman too.

[@mathewbaldwin5277]

Her rhythm is outstanding.

[@captainhowdy8885]

This woman’s sound was so beautiful. Like no other. John Fahey wouldn’t be without this woman. May god bless her in heaven. 🙏🏼

[@steviemartens1361]

This melody is so beautiful, its peaceful as if you're flying on a cloud...just makes me smile☺️ how precious it is❤

[@Powermusclechick]

Hands down...amen Elizabeth. Your 1 of a kind.

[@Descamisado]

As a left-hander looks like she's playing that guitar upside down. Wow !

[@heleng580]

The oldies are the goodies. They know best 😉

[@ahamefulehenry8455]

She actually is. Mind blowing right

[@lisawagner9147]

I can feel the hair on my legs growing. Delight to my ears and teas in my eyes

[@lisamoran5337]

This is priceless what a gift

[@MichaelJones-hn3fn]

Yes you're right

[@Blondejam]

What a wonderful lady!!!

[@margaritaresta6390]

She have beautiful hands

[@TenWilder0]

Her unique picking style is commonly called "cotten picking" and it's essentially Travis picking upside down. I assume she may have had an advantage at plucking out melodies as she did it with her thumb, while her contemporaries had to do it with the less dexterous index and middle fingers.

[@hannosmits9260]

Sweet, how she included one bar if "freight train" at the end

[@Brian-ey7qs]

What skill Amazing

[@Nelson_Swamp]

Her technique is amazing. Seems like I can hear where McCartney got influenced to come up with "Blackbird" and "Junk."

[@malaquiasalfaro81]

I prefer this but those are good too

[@BendixX69]

She is awesome, thanks for the video.

[@mikebartley1618]

Beautiful ..wish i had 1%🎸of her skill 🎶🎵✌💕

[@nathanael8612]

I know right haha!

[@jamminnoble]

Elizabeth Cotton is fantastic 💯👁️♥️ I love her♥️🎵🎼💯🎸

[@fabrizzio510]

i feel that face, i know how it feels.

[@pace.musicman5511]

Beautiful music blues 🎸🎵🎸

[@shelcoatzhahah]

So special

[@travis8947]

Awesome. Please keep these coming if you have more

[@hatay982]

Teşekkür ederim Elizabeth seni seviyorum.💫🙏😢

[@ТимурДонченко-ы6и]

Поражает уровень игры! В старые времена талантливых гитаристов было куда больше!

[@ethwar6933]

Is that Pete Seeger watching her in awe?

[@nashwilliams5852]

Eth War it is indeed. This was on his program “rainbow quest”.

[@sealevelbear]

Yes!

[@chrischatto7416]

Thank u for posting

[@pupusaslordking5617]

the moment of pure hapiness and joy the interviewer had at the end... it felt like witnessing a curious child fascinating about one special thing for the first time. I wish I was there to feel that same emotion

[@barnabius]

It amazes me that she’s picking with only two fingers

[@christaylor2070]

looks like she's picking with 1 finger and thumb. like Rev Gary Davis.

[@drewgarcia9823]

😍😍

[@clayauslewis4236]

What an incredible lady. And Pete Seeger. I guess he was a left-winger, but a real one. Not like the ones of today. Genuinely cared for the underdog, a champion for the poor, and the history of the USA, in the broad sense. All religions, races, colours. And he stood up to authoritarian governments, often to his own detriment. Who knows what would happen to him if he was around today. I think he would be absolutely appalled at the greed and corruption at all levels of society.

[@greenwater7508]

What are you talking about it's a well known fact he was a Grand Wizard in the KKK

[@barrysmith4094]

An insert in a C.D. put out by the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. says Elizabeth Cotton plays the guitar left handed. But that's wrong. Mrs. Cotton plays it upside down The strings are: E B G D A and low E. That's from bottom to top. If you stop the video and look at the guitar strings, you'll see the low E string is on the bottom. If you know nothing about music, you can see the thicker strings are on the bottom, and the thinner strings are on top. This means Mrs. Cotton is playing the chords with her left hand, but has not changed the strings around. The low E string is on the bottom, but it should be on top. So Mrs. Cotton is kind of playing the guitar left handed, but also upside down.

[@mottahead6464]

Hey..... Jimmy Page..... you looted from this woman.

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

Not to mention from Bert Jansch and many others, as well.

[@mikeharrison4659]

👍

[@sleezyryder]

Jimmy page teachers for sure if not copyright infringement

[@outtathyme5679]

Oh lordy me

[@nathaniel.7172]

Pro.

[@alejandrorodriguezvaldez7989]

excuse me, what is the tuning?

[@nashwilliams5852]

Standard