Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good documents Ric, Anthology!, well said! Cheers Lluis El 08/06/2010, a las 3:50, Ric Carter escribi?: > Added a couple of photos from the old days. > > Liv, Kate & James Taylor at a dinner honoring their father Ike > Taylor who was dean of the UNC Med School for several years. No, > they didn't perform. They were raised in Chapel Hill. > > <http://cartersxrd.net/Site/Performances/Pages/Anthology.html#8> > http://tinyurl.com/2ev3bcr > > ========= > > Elizabeth Cotten was raised in Carrboro on Lloyd Street just by the > railroad track. At the age of 12, Libba wrote the folk music > standard "Freight Train" about the freights which chugged through > town. Her talents were discovered years later after moved to > Washington, DC and became a maid. As luck would have it, the family > was Mike Seeger's -- the musical family that included Mike's half- > brother Pete. Libba went on to become famous. > > Libba developed a unique guitar sound. She had taught herself to > play her brother's banjo at age 7. Since she was left handed, she > did so with the strings upside down. Switching to guitar also made > her adapt what she had learned to cope with the missing drone string > giving her a one-of-a-kind style later to be known as "Cotten > Picking." > > I should have mentioned that Carrboro is the town that adjoins > Chapel Hill. For many years, it was the blue collar counterpart to > the college town. Today, it has it inherited many of the town's > counterculture types and is a much hipper place to be. > This photo was taken at the Eno Festival in the fall of 1976. > > <http://cartersxrd.net/Site/Performances/Pages/Libba_Cotten.html> > http://tinyurl.com/282a4oz > > Ric Carter > http://cartersxrd.net > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/ > www.facebook.com/ric.carter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information