Freight Train -- Stefan Grossman and Christian Marsh at the Stock Camp, National Folk Festival 2012
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2012
- An audience request, with background story about left-handed blues guitarist and songwriter Elizabeth Cotten. Stefan starts playing 2 minutes in (2:00). Christian Marsh joins him with improvised harp solos in different jazz styles.
American acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and singer, music producer and educator Stefan Williams and fantastic NSW harmonica player Christian Marsh at the Stockman's Camp during the 2012 National Folk Festival.
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Stefan has been touring Australia with Arelmedia Management:
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Ms. Cotten wrote and played this. She was so graceful and pure. Your playing is good.
Yes..that harmonica...wow! Excellent guitar too
That was very special. Thank you
Thanks to Stephan for sharing his love and knowledge of country blues guitar in books (with tablature!) a long time ago.
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.
Club was Les cousins in Greek street soho
Nice hommage to the one and only Elisabeth Cotten ❤
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!
It's always good to know the background of these songs and how they came to be
Fabulous - thank you
Absolute class!
Amazing video. thank you for posting. I love the harmonica accompaniment.
I play the harmonica, and it's not bad, but they need to rehears.
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 🙏😎🍌
That harmonica is giving me goosebumps
Okay........but they need to rehears. I also play the harmonica and well, they need to rehears.
Harmonica-- wow!
Boy that harp player has an excellent tone. enjoyed it.
Musicians can have so much fun - and so effortlessly!
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 !!
Well I've heard many people play like that. Chet Attkins he plays that way.
@@barrysmith4094 You are right!! Chet was amazing ! Tommy Emmanuel etc.
I set about 20' from Tommy one night for two hours and my friends wanted to know what I learned ???
I told them "I didn't learn anything-HE WAS GOING TOO FAST "!!!! Ha Ha Ha
A true little gem.
You forgot to explain that Elizabeth Cotten was left-handed and played a right handed guitar so she played it upside down.
Yes he did. You missed it? She took the guitar off the wall.
Elizabeth wrote that at the age of 11 in 1904.
This is 😊 awesome!
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
Legend is correct. And as always an amazing performance that inspires others as well as being a mine of information about country blues.
Your the man
Fantastic ! I love this song and Stefan does it so good !
Ive never heard harmonica so good!
Man I had the luxury of playing an impromptu gig with Christian Marsh at Intuition Music School . It was one the best musical experiences in my life. Thanks for uploading.
I thought
Ciao piace molto anche a me e sono più di 40 anni che lo ascolto sempre con grandissimo piacere, grazie Stefan
Thanks for explanation about Elizabeth cotton. I know her from like 3years but I don't know that much about her. I'm a 29 years old now, but I still love that song...
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It's Christian Marsh, the harp player. Don't underestimate him!
Didnt know harmonica can do cool improvs like that 🔥🔥
There's a lot to a harmonica. But they should of rehearsed first. I play the harmonica.
I think Christian, although his harp playing sounded wonderful,
did not really capture the essence of each artist he was asked too...
I thought it was actually a rather unachievable request placed upon him by Stefan.
It did however, make for a highly entertaining version..
Wonderful playing by both musicians.
Cool, Christian is the best harp player where I live, he's a good bloke too and a monster on the harp. As for Stefan, LEGEND. It seems Christian has now played with literally everyone :)
The harp player is amazing😀
Information, good musicianship mixed with humour!
I learned to love this song when I heard Alex Campbell sing it at the Contrescarpe.
I just love Stefan Grossman. I heard him the first time as a 15 y kid and I thought I would play just like him.... well now I am 58 and I still don´t play like Grossman :-)
You are not alone! ; >
You need to practice and have someone show you haw to finger pick!
I first came across Stefan in '69 via his 'How to play Blues Guitar' album. I've seen him many times now, an absolute hero, shook his hand once lol....oh, and I'll be 73 soon, and yep, I still can't play like him. I'll keep trying though.
Sweet!
Stefan Grossman is great on this one
Great.
Il like it ! I play My creole bell also ! Thanks !
Saasweet
once upon a time I could play it from straight C. Now I am old (77) and have to capo up two frets. Still out of C-position. Norman Blake said he has the same problem. must get a 12-fret box someday.
Tune your guitar down it makes it easier. Plus a lot of these country blues songs are tuned down a bunch.
She did not play like Jimi Hendrix but like Albert King who took a right handed guitar and played it upside down strung for a right handed player
Wonder what model his Martin Is. I have a Martin J40 and his guitar looks like it except it had dot inlays on the fretboard, where mine has hexagon inlays.
Martin HJ38 Stefan Grossman Signature Limited Edition (no longer in production)
Hendrix did not play like that.
Although he may have turned a RH Fender Stratocaster over, to play it left handed,
Jimi always restrung his guitar to play it standard for a lefty.
True. Perhaps Stefan is thinking of Albert King or Otis Rush who did play with the bass stings on the bottom
I like to put an Am in just before the E. I think Peter, Paul and Mary do it that way.
I can't remember where I learned it but the Am comes on the "I don't " just before the E if you are playing out of the C position.
Quand les dieux s'en mêles ho ho la la merci
2.01 song starts
This song can be played in the key of "C" on your Harmonica .... Try playing it. Eli "King of Rock *& Roll Harmonica
Love this so much. I accidentally hit dislike. I did hit the like after that
this ok
J.H didn't play with his fingers ?
Hmm… I have to say, I'm not really detecting any Coltrane or Monk in those harmonica solos. Still pretty great, though!
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.
Man, you're full of BS. I also play harmonica.
Thom Bresh lie thumb on the guitar.
Not exactly Chet Atkins
Good for kids though
Great licks but I dont like it over this song
So Hendrix is the best guitar player ever n Gimme a break/
go to 2min...
Steve is a great musican. He needs to brush up on history. Mike and Peggy are Pete's half siblings
I've never heard a harmonica/harp played so inconsistent to a tune!!!!!!!!!!!
So what? It wasn’t bad and it’s probably unrehearsed like most country blues.
that fucking thing went on and on !! ffs it was rubbish
Thumbs down for the harmonic addition.