- country blues, folk
- 35 min
- 14 tracks
- Smithsonian Folkways
Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar is a 1958 album by American blues and folk musician Elizabeth Cotten and was released on Folkways Records as FG 3526. In 1989 it was reissued by Smithsonian Folkways as SFW40009 featuring Mike Seeger's updated notes with comments on Cotten's life, musical style, and song lyrics.
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Earnest, classical in form, intimate and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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Tracks
- 1Penitentiary Blues1:40
- 2Freight Train2:46
- 3Going Down the Road Feeling Bad2:12
- 4I Don't Love Nobody1:14
- 5Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now0:57
- 6Graduation March2:33
- 7Honey Babe Your Papa Cares for You2:15
- 8Vastopol2:11
- 9Here Old Rattler Here / Sent for My Fiddle Sent for My Bow / George Buck3:48
- 10Run… Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone2:19
- 11Sweet Bye and Bye / What a Friend We Have in Jesus3:02
- 12Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie4:43
- 13Spanish Flang Dang2:51
- 14When I Get Home2:23
14 tracks, 35 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Elizabeth Cotten
- Label
- Smithsonian Folkways
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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