She Made 75 Cent A Month and Created Cotton Picken Style of Guitar playing

[@celebratingtheclassicswithearl]

She was an American Icon 🎼🎸🙏 Great job brother man

[@johnnyx1734]

Amazing! Hadn't heard of her before. Thank you for posting. She is a rare talent.

[@BigBrian]

@@johnnyx1734 I know and when she said she couldn't play some of the songs her siblings could play that lady interviewing her was like wow well you're doing pretty good yourself 😀 so just imagine how good they were

[@siriusra2692]

.,.....Great Video.......thanks for honoring the late great Elizabeth Cotten........without her there is no guitar centered popular music......she pioneered it..... especially blues guitar...country guitar ....and folk guitar

[@BigBrian]

Yes 💯👍❤️

[@Thomas-pq4ys]

Thanks for this. I became passionate about the old Blues in 1975, and kept at it well into the 80's, when I picked up electric guitar, and studied the Chicago and Texas masters. Pop music went right by me during that time. I've a recoding of Elizabeth... Now I want to go to Syracuse to find that statue. Blues music, all American roots music, is my passion... What's amazing is the new artists are writing in this style yet. I'm an old man now. Due to a recent accidental hand injury, I can no longer play... but as soon as I heal, I'm going to relearn.

[@BigBrian]

@@Thomas-pq4ys Awesome thanks for your comment, in Some way she reminds me of Jimi Hendrix, Plays Left handed and was a trailblazer and she kind of look like him like him maybe she got some Indian in her too

[@cindymeyerson2099]

I am so appreciative of all the artists that don't always get attention. Thank you Elizabeth Cotton. I will get my guitar strings fixed soon.❤❤❤

[@VantaBlack-es6zt]

Wow ! 🎸🪕Such an inspiring story 🥇🤗🙏Bless Elizabeth Cotton 🎶❤ Bless you Big Brian ! 🤗❤

[@BigBrian]

@@VantaBlack-es6zt you're such a sweetheart I hope you having a good Christmas ❤️

[@VantaBlack-es6zt]

@@BigBrian Thank you so much ! 🙌🥰❤I'm looking forward to a nice chill Christmas 🎄🎶🤗 Hope you're having an amazing Christmas Eve Brian 💯 Sending love ❤❤❤

[@michaelfinley4440]

I'm sooo glad u posted this Brian. I even just took a little time and started learning "freight train" on guitar. I teach guitar for a living, That's me hustle. Great song/ I'm going to have a lesson tomorrow with this young girl I teach who plays pretty good and sings, I'm gonna teach her this song and tell her all about Elizabeth Cotton. Thanks to you!!:)

[@BigBrian]

That's Awesome, thanks for the comment just show her this video 😄 I'll tell you what though, it's not the easiest song in the world to play lol , This song and Jim Croce Time in a bottle,

[@georgecovetskie6717]

Awesome ! Thanks for making this video. I'ts amazing how many great musicians we learn about, especially from the early days. What a great story. What a Great Person she was. 🙂

[@TomiLoveless]

Elizabeth Cotton is awesome Thank you America for taking her into your hearts!

[@comment.highlighted]

Wow. I happen to come across this. Elizabeth Cotton is an amazing talent and inspiring. Thank you for sharing 🙂

[@BigBrian]

@@comment.highlighted thanks for the comment and liking ❤️👍

[@tamdsms]

Big Brian, Thanks for broadening my horizon❣ "Season's Greetings", kind regards & best wishes❣

[@BigBrian]

@@tamdsmsthanks for the comment 👍❤️

[@tamdsms]

@@BigBrian, My pleasure❣

[@thomaskline]

I was lucky enough to see “Libba” in the early 60’s. She was amazing.

[@BigBrian]

@@thomaskline WOW, thanks for sharing 👍❤️ , I wish I knew more about a siblings cuz she mentioned that they all played guitar, but I couldn't find anything about them

[@cnilecnile6748]

I remember always reading about Elizabeth Cotton back in the early 70's, when I was a kid, in the Guitar Player magazine. She was the first-ever shred guitar player, and every time Robert Johnson was brought up, everyone said that she had already been there, done that. This is the first time I have ever gotten to actually watch her play, and now I know what Leo Kottke, Billy Gibbons, Eric Clapton, etc. was talking about. THANKS for posting this-she is the one that turned the guitar from a ladies parlor instrument into a serious one, thereby creating modern, popular music. Prior to her, it was the banjo-she's the one that changed that. If it wasn't for her, we would have been listening to Eddie Van Halen doing "Eruption" on a banjo........

[@BigBrian]

@@cnilecnile6748thanks for watching and thanks for your comment, a lot of people Don't realize realizing That Son House initially taught Robert Johnson how to play a guitar

[@rodneykitchen3869]

She was hired by the Pete Seegers family, she was left handed but guitar played as right handed she wrote Freight Train, I bought her first album back in the sixties. Rod in London

[@williamgshippw.g1673]

A grand lady of music and song…she is one of the most important players in America…☮️🎶🔛🌎

[@WhereverAndAnywhere]

😮❤❤❤

[@geraldross967]

That was criminal when the average wage at that time was 20 cents/hour.

[@BigBrian]

@@geraldross967 I know can you imagine making 75 cents a month? But to be honest a new guys that work back in the 1970s and they told me they used to make a 1.70 cents an hour, and I was like God damn, but you know what gas used to be like 27 cents a gallon back then lol damn near free compare it to now, and that was Elizabeth cotten was a child they weren't even using gas they used horse and buggy 🤣 she said she paid $3.75 for her guitar and they said that's worth like $170 now

[@geraldross967]

@BigBrian I was one of those guys. They weren't lying.

[@geraldross967]

@BigBrian a 1970 ford maverick was 1,995.00

[@BigBrian]

@geraldross967 wow oh I believe I believe you, I believe them too , it was a few of them I was working at a warehouse one time, they were truck drivers , and we was having a s*** session back in the 90's and they told me that's what they used to make when they started working and I was like damn but I the cost of living was so much better than it is now!

[@BigBrian]

@@geraldross967 yes my dad had a Chevy Vega lol

[@adriantaylor289]

Really interesting. I notice that in the later clips she's playing the guitar strung 'correctly' for a left hander - bass strings at the bottom. I wonder when she changed? Thank you from the U.K.

[@BigBrian]

@@adriantaylor289 she always played that way she just turned out she just turned the guitar upside down

[@adriantaylor289]

​@@BigBrian Thanks Brian 😊!

[@aisforapple2494]

Elizabeth Cotten is left-handed, as is Jimi Hendrix, but Hendrix put the bass strings on top, unlike Cotten, who along with Dick Dale, play left-handed with right-handed strung guitars, where the treble strings are on top.

[@NicholasANappiNick]

I had an uncle who delivered ice 12 hours a day for Dollar so he was in the chips 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@BigBrian]

I know the minimum wage was like $1.70 a hour back in the '70s the old timers use to tell me but it's even harder to imagine 75 cents a month 😮, I think she said the guitar cost her $3.75 which is worth about $120 today