Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten / by Laura Veirs ; illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.
Material type: TextPublisher: San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781452148571
- 1452148570
- 782.42162/130092 B 23
- ML3930.C67 V45 2018
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Park Branch Youth Services KIDS' BIOGRAPHY | Juvenile Nonfiction | JBIO COTTEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31624003719358 |
Includes bibliographical references.
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 beaches of California to the rolling hills of England knew her music.
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