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Thanks boys

Yes..that harmonica...wow! Excellent guitar too

Your the man

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Not exactly Chet Atkins Good for kids though

I miss these guys

Fabulous. No expense spared on the furnture😢

This is 😊 awesome!

Harmonica-- wow!

That was very special. Thank you

You forgot to explain that Elizabeth Cotten was left-handed and played a right handed guitar so she played it upside down.

A true little gem.

Absolute class!

fiddles like he could teach Charlie Daniels' friend Johnny a thing or two. the legacy of Appalachia is alive and well in this californian!

This is fabulous. I need more! R.

great song great picking, great blokes

Ms. Cotten wrote and played this. She was so graceful and pure. Your playing is good.

Boy that harp player has an excellent tone. enjoyed it.

Great cover . Really enjoyed it

Fabulous - thank you

If this guy is supposed to be one of the best harmonica players in the world, I don't know who said it.

A real good harmonica player can just play the Saint Louie Blues. But that's how I see it ......again! REHEARSE

Guitar and harmonica always sound good together, but you guys should have rehearsed. That's how I see it. I also play the harmonica. And by the way, I'd like to hear the song from beginning to end. The guitar takes the lead and the harmonica adds the fill ins and fiurishes, then the harmonica takes the lead and the guitar provides the background. That song Fright Train would sound great if you guys just rehearsed.

Good guitar playing, but what's with the harmonica? You guys should of rehearsed.

Saasweet

So Hendrix is the best guitar player ever n Gimme a break/

Ciao piace molto anche a me e sono più di 40 anni che lo ascolto sempre con grandissimo piacere, grazie Stefan

Amazing video. thank you for posting. I love the harmonica accompaniment.

Great!

Thanks to Stephan for sharing his love and knowledge of country blues guitar in books (with tablature!) a long time ago.

Nice hommage to the one and only Elisabeth Cotten ❤

Love this so much. I accidentally hit dislike. I did hit the like after that

This song can be played in the key of "C" on your Harmonica .... Try playing it. Eli "King of Rock *& Roll Harmonica

Stefan - a class act, according to my dictionary. Ms Elizabeth said this was written because of a train she used to hear outside her window growing up. I hear all kinds of things outside my window at night and couldn't write a song about it if my life depended on it 😂. Loved this!

Steve is a great musican. He needs to brush up on history. Mike and Peggy are Pete's half siblings

It's always good to know the background of these songs and how they came to be

The harp player is amazing😀

If you are an acoustic player and do not realize the talent this man has they are dead ! What an amazing man ! Just love his style !!! Thank you Stefan !!

You are all amazing

No comments in nearly 12 years for this great duo? Unbelievable. Such a catchy song by 2 great artists who are at the top of their profession. Great rendition by Stefan and Christian.

I've never heard a harmonica/harp played so inconsistent to a tune!!!!!!!!!!!

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten A little girl was born in North Carolina in about 1893, the grand daughter of a former slave, and since she had many other siblings she was just called "Babe" or "Li'l Sis" by her mother. When she entered school, the teacher asked her for her "real" name, and so this young girl thought for a moment, and just said, "Elizabeth." And thus, "Elizabeth" Cotten actually named herself! Elizabeth was left handed, and so she taught herself to play both the banjo and the guitar, simply by flipping it over, but not knowing that left-handed players normally re-string the guitar as well. And so, she had the high E string at the top! No matter, she taught herself to play, and she even wrote songs as well. When she was nine or ten years old, Elizabeth stopped going to school in order to work, and she became a domestic servant, earning seventy-five cents per month. And at home, she would also practice playing her older brother's banjo and guitar. But since Elizabeth was left-handed, she practiced playing them upside-down and backwards! After her brother moved away, she missed his banjo and guitar almost as much as she missed him, and so she begged her mama to get her a guitar, which her meager savings eventually could allow her to purchase for $3.75 at Sears & Roebuck. And this, too, she played upside-down and backwards, with the high E string at the top! By age twelve, having lived near the sound of the nearby train, Elizabeth wrote the song "Freight Train," which would ultimately go on to become one of the most well-known Blues Tunes of the early Twentieth Century. But after being married at the young age of fifteen, and having the Baptist Church advise her that music was the "Tool of the Devil," she gave up her musical pursuits for several decades. While working in a department store selling toy dolls and now living in Washington D.C., one day Elizabeth rounded up a lost little girl whose mother happened to be part of the Seeger Family, one of the most influential musical families in the area, and she later began to work for her. During times when the family was busy, Elizabeth would take a guitar down from the wall near the kitchen, and begin to pick her former self-taught childhood songs from three or four decades prior. One day, the kids heard her playing, and this changed everything! The kids began to do Elizabeth's former chores, while allowing her to teach them how to play the songs she had learned on her own as a child, even though she was now about sixty years of age! And one of the Seeger Family boys started to record some of Elizabeth's playing. By now, Elizabeth had not only grandchildren, but even great grandchildren, and there was one song that Elizabeth composed that she had encouraged all of her generations of grandchildren and great grandchildren to add lyrics to, and this was called, "Shake Sugaree." Ultimately, a recording was made of "Shake Sugaree" with Elizabeth Cotten playing her guitar, and Brenda Evans, her twelve-year-old GREAT grandchild, singing the lyrics, in 1967. Songs like this one and many others enabled Elizabeth to earn enough money to move her entire family from Washington D.C. up to Syracuse, New York, where she would spend the remainder of her life. Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, born in 1893, died in Syracuse, New York in 1987, and she now has a bronze statue and a park in that town named after her. Truly a folk song, written over several generations, "Shake Sugaree" is etched in American Blues Music as one of the most amazing musical stories, and I believe that what's most beautiful about the song is its utter simplicity and yet deep description of the plight of someone who endures economic desperation, and yet ironically, this song, and others like it, led her to complete independence and well-earned respect from musicians and fans alike. - j q t - "Freight Train" ruclips.net/video/dgQEOkuCRZ0/видео.html "Shake Sugaree" ruclips.net/video/PXxgeNoDv6o/видео.html A few other recordings: ruclips.net/video/kMJ73DKvYpY/видео.html ruclips.net/video/N5MTbScgKVE/видео.html ruclips.net/video/oHkRKx014fo/видео.html ruclips.net/video/2aYNPF33MRw/видео.html "Shake Sugaree" by Elizabeth 'Libba' Cotten: Have a little song Won't take long Sing it right Once or twice Oh, lordy me Didn't I shake sugaree? Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned Pawn my watch Pawn my chain Pawn everything that was in my name Oh, lordy me Didn't I shake sugaree? Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned Pawn by buggy Horse and cart Pawn everything that was on my lot Oh, lordy me Didn't I shake sugaree? Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned Pawn my chair Pawn my bed Ain't got nowhere to lay my head Oh, lordy me Didn't I shake sugaree? Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned Pawn my tobacco Pawn my pipe Pawned everything that was in my sight Oh, lordy me Didn't I shake sugaree? Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned Have a little secret I ain't gonna tell I'm going to heaven in a brown pea shell Oh, lordy me Didn't I shake sugaree? Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned Pawn my farm Pawn my plough Pawned everything, even pawned my old cow Oh, lordy me Didn't I shake sugaree? Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned Pawn my hat Pawn my shoes Pawned everything that I could use Oh, lordy me Didn't I shake sugaree? Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned Have a little secret, I ain't gonna tell I'm goin' to heaven and I ain't goin' no... Oh, lordy me Didn't I shake sugaree? Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned Chew my tobacco Spit my juice We raise cain but it ain't a bit 'a use Oh, lordy me Didn't I shake sugaree? Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned. Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Elizabeth Cotten Shake Sugaree lyrics © Figs D Music, Stormking Music Inc, Figs. D Music, Inc. Obo Stormking Music

Stefan Grossman is great on this one

Thumbs down for the harmonic addition.

Saw stefan play when he was I think living in England at the time, the folk club was based in a room above a pub, but of course where on earth would a folk club be based at time, this is going back 50 years and have never forgotten his performance. It was just wonderful. Thank you Stefan.

I use to watch the Wise family band since the girls were little ones, great to see them all together singing here.

Dear Stefan and the team of GtrWorkshop, A fan from Melbourne VIC Australia. I am thankful for the song Freight Train at RUclips. I have been busy with the guitar. To get together: something polished and finished; to be proud of and hard at it. It is a song like this: in amongst it all, that brings it all home. It makes sense of it. If, it falls right. It helps make sense of life; to a serious guitarist like me. Yours Sincerely, Derek Rocha 🙏😎🍌

Didnt know harmonica can do cool improvs like that 🔥🔥

Wish I had been there. :-)

Nice conversation going on there. Good to watch.