{"id":313,"date":"2007-05-11T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T14:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2008-03-04T18:19:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T16:19:32","slug":"freight-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"freight train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Cotten\"><strong>elizabeth cotten<\/strong><\/a> (with pete seeger as fan) &#8211; watch the whole thing:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OMSYzFdloqY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OMSYzFdloqY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nand more songs and stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=awK3p0S-tuQ\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ukQaIF9_E4\">here<\/a>. and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fPYRRSAZGuQ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Cotten was born in Carrboro, North Carolina to a musical family; her parents were George Nevills and Louise Price Nevills. Elizabeth was the youngest of five children. She began writing music while toying around with her older siblings&#8217; instruments, sometimes having to sneak into her older brother&#8217;s room to lay the hidden guitar across her lap and play. After more tinkering with these instruments she began playing the guitar upside down, since she was left-handed. This position required her to play the bass lines with her fingers, and the melody with her thumb. Her signature, alternating bass style is known as &#8220;Cotten Picking&#8221;. By age 8 she was playing songs, and after scraping together some money she bought her own guitar, which she named &#8220;Stella&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She possessed the remarkable ability to play a song exactly after hearing it only once. By her early teens she was writing her own songs, one of which, &#8220;Freight Train&#8221;, would go on to be one of her most recognized. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>thanks to catalin for the heads up<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>elizabeth cotten (with pete seeger as fan) &#8211; watch the whole thing: and more songs and stories here and here. and here. &#8230; Cotten was born in Carrboro, North Carolina to a musical family; her parents were George Nevills and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=313\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8,17,31,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intersectionalities","category-links","category-media","category-menmale-allies","category-musics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}