Spencer Tweedy: Elizabeth Cotten & Good Ole Music

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Watch “Freight Train” by Elizabeth Cotten on YouTube

This is Elizabeth Cotten. When she was a teenager, she bought herself a guitar. It was a right-handed guitar, but she was left-handed, so she taught herself how to play it. Not restrung. Upside down. She invented a style of…

Hooray Spencer! She is my idol. Whenever I start to burn out I think “better slow down if you’re still gonna do this when you’re 90.”

(Source: unrequiredlistening)

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