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Cover of Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes

Album • 1989

Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes

Elizabeth Cotten14 songs • 35 minutes

Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar is a 1958 album by American blues and folk musician Elizabeth Cotten and was released on Folkways Records as FG 3526. In 1989 it was reissued by Smithsonian Folkways as SFW40009 featuring Mike Seeger's updated notes with comments on Cotten's life, musical style, and song lyrics. The album is also known as Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes and was originally released as Elizabeth Cotten: Negro Folk Songs and Tunes. It is best known for containing the earliest recording of her classic "Freight Train." The album cover was designed by Ronald Clyne. In 2008, the Library of Congress named the album to its National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkson...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

Songs

  1. 1
  2. 2
    Freight Train
  3. 3
    Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
  4. 4
    I Don't Love Nobody
  5. 5
    Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now
  6. 6
    Graduation March
  7. 7
    Honey Babe Your Papa Cares For You
  8. 8
  9. 9
    Here Old Rattler Here / Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow / George Buck
  10. 10
    Run...Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone
  11. 11
    Sweet Bye and Bye / What A Friend We Have In Jesus
  12. 12
    Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
  13. 13
    Spanish Flang Dang
  14. 14
    When I Get Home

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