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)