Folk Archivist

I have been collecting folk recordings, mostly by artists from the United States and the British Isles, for about 40 years. This blog is intended to share a few of these recordings (all believed to be Public Domain under EU law where this blog originates) and make them available online for research and scholarship in accordance with the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107. Also included are links to other interesting blogs, websites, and freely available folk audio and video.

Montag, 22. August 2011

Elizabeth Cotten captured live in the 1960s

Found a wonderful YouTube channel with what seems to be 1960s blues and folk concerts from (most likely) KCTS, Seattle, WA.

I think that these priceless performances should be shared as widely as possible.

So, as my first offering, this is Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (correct spelling) demonstrating her rather unique guitar style (playing a regularly strung guitar left-handed) with songs like "Freight Train":

For my own archive, I have combined both parts and converted them to Divx (200 MB).