Vastapol, is a corruption of Sevastopol. An open tuning the old blues pickers used to love. Don’t hear that tuning much anymore but it was very popular in the 1910s-1930s. Vastopol tuning was popular with pickers and slide guitarists.
RUclips channel "Joe Lindsley/Journalist" talks about this 30 minutes into his February 15, 2024 video called **'The Land Of The Free: "This is the realest thing I ever done.....* 🩵👍
Elizabeth Cotton is not only an incredible player and person, but she also introduced me to Cotton Pickin’ style and changed playing guitar for me forever. Playing with just 2 fingers (or 3 if you have to) made it so much easier for me, so I just wanted to say thank you to Elizabeth. ❤️
The essence of Carolina flows from the fingers of Elizabeth Cotten right through the heart: the wind over the Blue Ridge Mountains, the waters of the French Broad River...and her voice breathes the old but always powerful nature... You can't discover artists like this today...
The thing is, these old artists are leaving us for another land, and taking their talent with them. It is up to the young people to take up the tradition and pass it along.
@@bobgreen8142I’m 17 (very soon to be 18) and I try my hardest to keep music like this alive by playing as much as I can and sharing what I can’t. With that being said I believe the difference in the lives of generations will affect how people play and express themselves through music will change as the rest of the world does
@@adamp3223 Not how to play but he would have learned Freight Train from her either directly or through his half-siblings Mike and Peggy. Cotten worked for the Seeger family as essentially a housekeeper and Mike and Peggy discovered that she could play guitar and banjo, which is how she started becoming "known" musically.
Elizabeth must have learned this sitting on an ol porch with a borrowed guitar, birds and crickets as a backing. Man this is tyhe real deal right here what a feel for the guitar. Cheers fae the Scottish Highlands.
rodsreel she grew in a musical family. Check out her bio. It’s pretty interesting. She basically quit the guitar then relearned it when she was like 60 or something
True OG. Hearing future renditions like john fahey full fingered and she is pulling off the same scope of sound plucking with just her thumb and fore finger. Badass
That's the way I play, and having been told of Elizabeth Cotton years ago it was a real pleasure to see this. Of course playing left handed upside down, and never seeing anyone do it, I was as lost as anyone else, I do get the same sound though.
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, nacida Elizabeth Neville, (Chapel Hill, 5 de enero de 1893 - 29 de junio de 1987) fue una cantante, guitarrista y compositora estadounidense de música folk y blues. Desarrolló una peculiar técnica de tocar la guitarra que es conocida como el "Cotten picking", en honor a su nombre.
I'm not sure I was aware that you could just flip the guitar over and play "upside down" like this, when I first started playing. I remember telling my mom I needed a left handed guitar, because I'm a leftie, and she said "Oh, no, it doesn't matter, you can play right handed". I knew about Hendrix flipping right handed guitars over, but I knew he usually restrung them like left handed guitars (so that the high E would be the closest to the floor). I wonder how things would have turned out if I flipped the guitar over and did like Ms. Cotton here, or Albert King, Otis Rush, Doyle Bramhall II, or Coco Montoya did.
I knew a guy back in the day played upside down and he was really good though it does rule out quite a lot of things that other guitarists tend to play. Also there are lots of lefties who just play right handed such as Robert Fripp, Mark Knopfler, Joe Perry, Gary Moore.
I know that my thumb is better at playing the treble strings...if I thought my first finger could do the bass (as if) I would reverse my strings right now.
John also calls it "Siege of Sevastopol." It's an old tune and open D tuning is often called "Vastopol" tuning after this song. Libba shortened it to Vastopol or sometimes Bastopol.
@@adamp3223 Strings are NOT reversed. She's playing a right-handed guitar left-handed without changing the strings. So her left forefinger is playing the bass and left thumb the melody.
@@banjochris I'm confused. Are her bass strings not closest to her feet? Treble strings closest to the head? Is that not the reverse of how guitar is normally played? I get you saying she's playing a right handed guitar left handed but to do that you have to turn the guitar upside down and the strings are in reverse order.
@@Ayo.Ajisafe Right but the guitar is just flipped over, reversing the strings. The strings haven’t been put on “backwards” like left-handed players usually do. If you did both of those things the strings would go back to “normal.”
@@banjochris I get you. I get the distinction. Honestly at first i thought it was a bit of a pedantic distinction but given that we are speaking about a legend, I understand why you did so.
Same guitar tuning, open D. Prodigal Son came from the Rev. Robert Wilkins, who also recorded it in the '20s as a blues number called That's No Way to Get Along.
Ну кто здесь от дяди Сережи?
пенкина?
@@T-sz7oiот пенкина, видимо ты😂
@@gwynbleidd85 а чем тебе пенкин не нравится?
Спасибо, Минаев, хорошая композиция
Vastapol, is a corruption of Sevastopol. An open tuning the old blues pickers used to love. Don’t hear that tuning much anymore but it was very popular in the 1910s-1930s. Vastopol tuning was popular with pickers and slide guitarists.
This woman deeply moves me. I strongly encourage everyone to give Elizabeth Cotten a thorough look, she is a wonderful human ❤
RUclips channel "Joe Lindsley/Journalist" talks about this 30 minutes into his February 15, 2024 video called **'The Land Of The Free: "This is the realest thing I ever done.....* 🩵👍
Elizabeth Cotton is not only an incredible player and person, but she also introduced me to Cotton Pickin’ style and changed playing guitar for me forever. Playing with just 2 fingers (or 3 if you have to) made it so much easier for me, so I just wanted to say thank you to Elizabeth. ❤️
This very guitar is behind glass just inside the main entrance to the American History Museum in Washington, DC
Yep. I was pleasantly surprised to see it on display. She had darn near worn the top off of the guitar from her playing.
Wonderful.
this makes me happy to hear
Just beggin to be played
Im sure there are songs left in it, but they all belong to Libba.
The essence of Carolina flows from the fingers of Elizabeth Cotten right through the heart: the wind over the Blue Ridge Mountains, the waters of the French Broad River...and her voice breathes the old but always powerful nature...
You can't discover artists like this today...
This one of the most beautiful song I have ever heard. You can hear a soul and love for the world behind each move she makes.
left handed up side down guitarist "SMO'KIN"! luv you Elizabeth!
i can imagine a summer drive... over rollercoaster hills... thru tall trees of shimmer light....listening to THIS music 💙💛wafting thru the soft breeze
I drive to work in rural Arkansas, and when I drive through the rolling hills I listen to this music.
It is beautiful out here.
Awesome @jackwilliams3156
🎸🌳🌄🌲🎶
If you like this, you’ll also love Blind Blake and Blind Boy Fuller. This is pure Piedmont blues
The thing is, these old artists are leaving us for another land, and taking their talent with them. It is up to the young people to take up the tradition and pass it along.
At 67 I'm trying, but realise I have far more behind me than in front...
@@bobgreen8142I’m 17 (very soon to be 18) and I try my hardest to keep music like this alive by playing as much as I can and sharing what I can’t. With that being said I believe the difference in the lives of generations will affect how people play and express themselves through music will change as the rest of the world does
Elizabeth Cotton is truly amazing.Wish she was still with us, along with Pete Seeger.
And playing upside down to boot.
Did she teach Pete Seeger?
@@adamp3223 Not how to play but he would have learned Freight Train from her either directly or through his half-siblings Mike and Peggy. Cotten worked for the Seeger family as essentially a housekeeper and Mike and Peggy discovered that she could play guitar and banjo, which is how she started becoming "known" musically.
That closeup of the pickin hand is great!!
Just magical. No words can suit this song.
Showed this to my 12 year old grandson...he is now trying to play it!!
He would like Shake Sugaree from her. She even has one with her granddaughter singing it.
Literally the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard
I'm so glad to have found this wonderful musician on UTube.
Elizabeth must have learned this sitting on an ol porch with a borrowed guitar, birds and crickets as a backing. Man this is tyhe real deal right here what a feel for the guitar. Cheers fae the Scottish Highlands.
rodsreel she grew in a musical family. Check out her bio. It’s pretty interesting. She basically quit the guitar then relearned it when she was like 60 or something
True OG. Hearing future renditions like john fahey full fingered and she is pulling off the same scope of sound plucking with just her thumb and fore finger. Badass
And upside down to boot.
Try and play the bass with your forefinger....she was amazing!
as a bass player that is the finger I use but I know what your saying
Excellent, while playing left-handed on a guitar strung for a righty!
素晴らしい…
２フィンガーだ。伝説ですね。
thank you～♪
That's the way I play, and having been told of Elizabeth Cotton years ago it was a real pleasure to see this. Of course playing left handed upside down, and never seeing anyone do it, I was as lost as anyone else, I do get the same sound though.
Me too
Legendary performance indeed
La gente de color son talento puro, Sin ellos la música No sería lo que es hoy Aporte valioso ala historia de la Música ya que ellos son Música
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Amazing
Another wonderful old guitar player who learned to play upside down.
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, nacida Elizabeth Neville, (Chapel Hill, 5 de enero de 1893 - 29 de junio de 1987) fue una cantante, guitarrista y compositora estadounidense de música folk y blues. Desarrolló una peculiar técnica de tocar la guitarra que es conocida como el "Cotten picking", en honor a su nombre.
Thats mighty fine finger pickin!
I am so impressed !
The good side of RUclips ✨
Dude. Its just like. Fuck.
So amazing!
Wow that was beautiful.
Beautiful!
damn fine job she has done
Thank you Ed Fromohio for taking me here!
The interviewer is a bit cringe 😬 but so happy Elizabeth is documented.
Love this great Lady!!! Awesome!
She's playing it upside down, how cool is that?
Complimenti.........
ジョンフェイヒー が影響受けたとサイトで見たことがありますが納得しました
Te Amo🦋
Si tocó algún día así.seria .
sounds like a whole orchestra
IMPRESSED
🙏🙏🙏🙏
I'm not sure I was aware that you could just flip the guitar over and play "upside down" like this, when I first started playing. I remember telling my mom I needed a left handed guitar, because I'm a leftie, and she said "Oh, no, it doesn't matter, you can play right handed". I knew about Hendrix flipping right handed guitars over, but I knew he usually restrung them like left handed guitars (so that the high E would be the closest to the floor). I wonder how things would have turned out if I flipped the guitar over and did like Ms. Cotton here, or Albert King, Otis Rush, Doyle Bramhall II, or Coco Montoya did.
I knew a guy back in the day played upside down and he was really good though it does rule out quite a lot of things that other guitarists tend to play. Also there are lots of lefties who just play right handed such as Robert Fripp, Mark Knopfler, Joe Perry, Gary Moore.
Sweet 😋
It's so easy you get the hang of it- amasing - ...
I know that my thumb is better at playing the treble strings...if I thought my first finger could do the bass (as if) I would reverse my strings right now.
Did Jimi Hendrix ever see this performance?
Wish they’d loose the close-ups on her hands, I just like to watch “her” play
4 “people” downvoted this song, what’s wrong with the world lol
Waoww👍
Crimea, Gallipoli, Black Sea music of the Dardanelles?
Sounds like a John Fahey tune??
John Fahey did a version of this song called "poor boy and a long ways from home" and he also was featured on this show
John also calls it "Siege of Sevastopol." It's an old tune and open D tuning is often called "Vastopol" tuning after this song. Libba shortened it to Vastopol or sometimes Bastopol.
I believe the original tune "poor boy long ways from home" of this is from 1926. I forgot by who.
Upside-down and backward❤
Thank you.
insane.
First thinking she'd reversed strings setting, then I was wrong.
She did. Strings are reversed, AND the guitar is turned around, so it's hard to know what's up
@@adamp3223 Strings are NOT reversed. She's playing a right-handed guitar left-handed without changing the strings. So her left forefinger is playing the bass and left thumb the melody.
@@banjochris I'm confused. Are her bass strings not closest to her feet? Treble strings closest to the head? Is that not the reverse of how guitar is normally played?
I get you saying she's playing a right handed guitar left handed but to do that you have to turn the guitar upside down and the strings are in reverse order.
@@Ayo.Ajisafe Right but the guitar is just flipped over, reversing the strings. The strings haven’t been put on “backwards” like left-handed players usually do. If you did both of those things the strings would go back to “normal.”
@@banjochris I get you. I get the distinction. Honestly at first i thought it was a bit of a pedantic distinction but given that we are speaking about a legend, I understand why you did so.
holy cow upside down
You can really hear where John fahey got the inspiration for “Poor boy long ways from home” and Sunflower River Blues”
Hang on a minute!! Anyone else here the Rolling stones "prodigal son" here?
Same guitar tuning, open D. Prodigal Son came from the Rev. Robert Wilkins, who also recorded it in the '20s as a blues number called That's No Way to Get Along.
@@portoflongbeach Wow! hey, and thanks for that. That opens up another musical web for me.
So weird to see travis picking done with the index finger on the bottom strings. Sounds great!
Jason Biggs p the
Is this open em tuning?
Sounds like John Fahey/John Fahey sounds like her
at times, the latter, and I'm a huge John Fahey fan. This lady is an amazingly good guitarist.
Who is the woman on the right hosting her?
Laura Weber
she has the hands of a young woman but the face of an old, defeated one.
her geetar is upside the down!
Think Knopfler was a fan.
Как сказал бы Павел Чехов: «это придумали в России»
OM-28 old Martin guitar ?
It’s 1950s Martin 000-18v 😊🌸✌️
Amazing
Beautiful!