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Elizabeth Cotten .... backwards guitar player


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"Freight Train" was the first fingerpicking piece I (and many others) learned.

Happy Traum "Fingerpicking Styles For Guitar" page 10 - I just looked it up.

It uses the same picking pattern throughout.

 

Another influential guitarist (though she never made as much money) with the initials EC..... [smile]

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I knew a fellow who played the guitar upside down & back to front.

 

I was at Art College with him. His name was Dave and I never failed to be amazed at how this left handed guitarist played a right handed guitar.

And yes, he finger-picked just like Elizabeth Cotten.

 

Just using the fingers for the alternating bass & the thumb for the melody is mind boggling.

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Albert King played it that way too. So does Doyle Bramhall II - can't think of any others.

 

Otis Rush also. That's why Albert's and Otis' bend phrasings are so difficult for us "normal" players. They were pulling while we are pushing.

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