Laura Veirs
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English
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"Elizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she picked up a guitar for the first time. It wasn't hers (it was her big brother's), and it wasn't strung right for her (she was left-handed). But she flipped that guitar upside down and backwards and taught herself how to play it anyway. By age eleven, she'd written "Freight Train," one of the most famous folk songs of the twentieth century. And by the end of her life, people everywhere from the sunny...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A true collaboration between three phenomenal, self-driven artists: avant-rock icon Neko Case, legendary musical nomad K.D. Lang, and indie folk star Laura Veirs. The women wrote all fourteen songs and shared lead vocals equally, sometimes even within the same track.