Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Added a couple of photos from the old days. Liv, Kate & James Taylor at a dinner honoring their father Ike Taylor who was dean of the UNC Med School for several years. No, they didn't perform. They were raised in Chapel Hill. <http://cartersxrd.net/Site/Performances/Pages/Anthology.html#8> http://tinyurl.com/2ev3bcr ========= Elizabeth Cotten was raised in Carrboro on Lloyd Street just by the railroad track. At the age of 12, Libba wrote the folk music standard "Freight Train" about the freights which chugged through town. Her talents were discovered years later after moved to Washington, DC and became a maid. As luck would have it, the family was Mike Seeger's -- the musical family that included Mike's half-brother Pete. Libba went on to become famous. Libba developed a unique guitar sound. She had taught herself to play her brother's banjo at age 7. Since she was left handed, she did so with the strings upside down. Switching to guitar also made her adapt what she had learned to cope with the missing drone string giving her a one-of-a-kind style later to be known as "Cotten Picking." I should have mentioned that Carrboro is the town that adjoins Chapel Hill. For many years, it was the blue collar counterpart to the college town. Today, it has it inherited many of the town's counterculture types and is a much hipper place to be. This photo was taken at the Eno Festival in the fall of 1976. <http://cartersxrd.net/Site/Performances/Pages/Libba_Cotten.html> http://tinyurl.com/282a4oz Ric Carter http://cartersxrd.net http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/ www.facebook.com/ric.carter