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Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten / by Laura Veirs ; illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781452148571
  • 1452148570
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 782.42162/130092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3930.C67 V45 2018
Summary: 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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK Park Branch Youth Services KIDS' BIOGRAPHY Juvenile Nonfiction JBIO COTTEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31624003719358
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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 beaches of California to the rolling hills of England knew her music.

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