Forbidden from playing music, a young Elizabeth Cotten — born in 1893 in what is now part of Carrboro — secretly borrowed her brother’s banjo and guitar. She flipped the instruments upside down to ...
In a fascinating but depressing story recently published in the Missoulian, writer Colin McDonald chronicles the ruination of freight-riding, a long and honorable American tradition. Hopping trains, ...
Doc Watson, vocals, guitar ; Merle Watson, guitar ; assisting vocalists and instrumentalists. Production notes: Recorded at North Star Studios, Todd, North Carolina. Table of contents Mississippi ...