"Freight Train".........Played On Tyros 2!
Vložit
- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- My arrangement of "Freight Train," written in 1906 by Elizabeth Cotten. I hope that you enjoy my version of this great old song!!! As always...please feel free to comment, and to "PLEASE RATE" the video..."THANKS!"
Dedicated to my good friend Bernie, (btrabmos333), from France!
Photo source: The Internet.
Some history on the compose:
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (January 5, 1895 June 29, 1987) was an American blues and folk musician, singer, and songwriter.
Self-taught and having no knowledge of conventional guitar tunings (e.g. standard 'EADGBE' tuning or any established open tunings), Cotten developed her own original style. Her approach to left-handed guitar playing involved keeping the guitar in standard tuning but holding it upside down. This position required her to play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb. Her signature, alternating bass style has become known as "Cotten picking".
Early life:
Elizabeth Nevills was born in Carrboro, North Carolina, at the border of Chapel Hill, to a musical family. Her parents were George Nevills and Louise Price Nevills. Elizabeth was the youngest of five children. At age seven, Cotten began to play her older brother's banjo. By eight years old, she was playing songs. At 11, after scraping together some money, she bought her own guitar. She became very good at playing the instrument, which she named "Stella." By her early teens she was writing her own songs, one of which, Freight Train, would go on to be one of her most recognized. Cotten wrote Freight Train when she saw a train pass by her house on Lloyd Street in Carrboro, North Carolina. Around the age of 13, Cotten began working as a maid along with her mother. Soon after at age 15, she was married to Frank Cotten. The couple had a daughter named Lillie, and soon after young Elizabeth gave up guitar playing for family and church. Elizabeth, Frank and their daughter Lillie moved around eastern United States for a number of years between North Carolina, New York, and Washington, D.C., finally settling in the D.C. area. When Lillie married, Elizabeth divorced Frank and moved in with her daughter and her family.
Re-discovery:
Cotten had retired from the guitar for 25 years, except for occasional church performances. It wasn't until she reached her 60s that she began recording and performing publicly. She was discovered by the folk-singing Seeger family while she was working for them as a housekeeper.
While working for a brief stint in a department store, Cotten helped a child wandering through the aisles find her mother. The child was Penny Seeger, and the mother was Ruth Crawford Seeger of the Charles Seeger Family. Soon after this, Elizabeth again began working as a maid, caring for the Seegers' children Mike, Peggy, Barbara, and Penny. While working with the Seegers (a voraciously musical family) she remembered her own guitar playing from 40 years prior and picked up the instrument again to start from scratch.
Later career and recordings:
During the later half of the 1950s, Mike Seeger began making bedroom reel to reel recordings of Cotten's songs in her house. The culmination of these recordings would later go on the album Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar, which was released on Folkways Records. Since its release, her songs, especially her signature track, "Freight Train", written when she was 11, have been covered by Peter, Paul, and Mary, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan, Devendra Banhart, Laura Gibson, Laura Veirs, His Name Is Alive and Taj Mahal. Shortly afterwards, she began playing selected joint shows with Mike Seeger, the first of which was in 1960 at Swarthmore College. One of her songs, "Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now", was in fact recorded by Blind Boy Fuller under the title "Lost Lover Blues" in 1940.
Using profits from her touring and record releases, as well as from the many awards given to her for contribution to the folk arts, Elizabeth moved with her daughter and grandchildren from Washington and bought a house in Syracuse, New York. She continued touring and releasing records well into her 80s. In 1984 she won the Grammy Award for "Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording" for her album on Arhoolie Records, Elizabeth Cotten Live. When accepting the award in Los Angeles, her comment was "Thank you. I only wish I had my guitar so I could play a song for you all". In 1989, Cotten was one of 75 influential African-American women chosen to be included in the photo documentary, I Dream a World.
Elizabeth Cotten died in Syracuse, New York at the age of 92.
Great.
Só saudade meus tempo
musique et images magnifique
Sehr gut! Danke schön!
Thank you Dwayne for your wunderful version of this stunning melody ;)
I love it, thank you!
I love this music
Oh boy oh boy oh boy .. I've been an enginedriver for nearly 15 years, and I just love "railway-songs" and from now on this will be my favorite worksong.
You do an exellent job, Dwayne.
Kind regard from Egon in Denmark.
Lovely performance and beautiful photos of the locomotives.
Yes!..."Freight train, freight train, going so fast"...however, if you have an on-time appointment that must be kept, it might be best to hop the Super Chief. Either way, bring back the Puffer Bellys. Great rendition, Dwayne. Five Iron Maiden Stars. And here's to Engineer Bill, while we're at it. Cordially, John
Dwayne miss you. I know you're listening to all the music you placed here. From time to time I come in here, to listen.
My favorite song, with great pictures of my favorite means of transport. Many thanks and Best wishes, Dave
Hello friend Dwayne,
wonderful, i see here old steam-machines and trains-super, bravo 5*****++for your video, the music is ow ever first class-beautiful!
Best Regards to Dwayne and California/Blue from Wolfgang/Germany.
Dwayne,
A beautiful song, you did a great job on it. Really pretty pictures. I love train pictures. 5 *****.
Darlene
Wonderful composition. Thanks for sharing.
Another great old classic Wayne,
and thanks for attached info!!
**********
Your Friend,
Brian.
You are an amazing musician..i came to your channel after watching your rendition of the "jesuit en" which i loved very much...your music is just superb...thank you so much...regards...Don Worth.. New Zealand.
Just came across this after seven years have passed.
Thought you would like to know that Dwayne is still remembered.
Very nice Video,very good played and nice sounds!!5*****!!!
Greating Ossimann
made my day, love it so much
Awsome pictures ,,fantastic looking locomotives ,,and 10/10 for the music ,,:) Greetings from England :) Sean
dwayne enjoy all your videos vey much can we have one of yourself at keyboard
best regards alex in scotland
i like this song very much! 5*
Hi Dwayne, this is brilliant and what an arrangement. The pictures of the video are great. 20******
Your musical friend
Eric
Nice arrangement of an oldie. Sure has an interesting history.
Hi Dwayne,
You certainly brought back memories for me. I used sing this in my skiffle days-not to mention the version by Nancy Whiskey and Chas McDevitt.
Am I showing my age?
best wishes
Mike.
Es fantastico!!!
Have a nice week
Jose
1006 ac WoW !
Niced Edit !
ALLSTARS !
Great arrangement. 5*
Best regards
Very nice Pictures.5*
Hi Dwyne, my friend,
Perfect as allways!!!!
You produced a lot of Wild West Romantic
5*****
Best wishes allways
Dieter
wonderful vid!
-----------------FR@NCO
Awesome job my friend. I really loved it.. Keep up the good work!
Talk to you later, Kyle
Hi Dwayne,this is brilliant.The images and your playing(played it once myself)
Great video!!!5*******
Best Regards Bertil & Kerstin
Hallo Dwayne
Dieses Video und der Sound ist Dir sehr gut gelungen. Kommpliment
Gruß Bert
Hello Dwayne,
Great Train Videos, Thanks so much for My :video response" video
Of "When it comes to Trains" by Paul Larson .
Its wasn't getting much air time on my channel with all the Romantic Tunes
there by Paul Larson.
Presented by, Steve
hey dear friend that is just great
how about playing the orange blossom special
im sure you will do something special with your arrangment of that one
Oh thank you Dwayne. Im in the process of getting a Tyros 2 so any tips you can give me would be most welcome. I can play , just never had a tyros before and need to get to know how to actually put a whole song together ( backing etc )
Much appreicated and lucky u over there in California.
Tracey - Near Liverpool - UK
Robert, my dad passed away three years ago this year.. sorry, but really glad you enjoyed his music. I happen to own his Tryos 2.. as far as the music styles, I have no clue what he used.. he was very much a "off the cuff" guy and would just find something he loved and would run with it..
I love your version of this its so good. Can you tell me how you got the train sound please or is it already on the tyros?
Thanks
love the arrangement, what style and voices did you use? BOB tyros 2 owner
white-black? ;) 5***** / like
What's a Tyros 2?