The Black D.C.-area guitarist who came to fame in her 70s receives the posthumous honor Nov. 5.
Cotten’s latest posthumous honor comes with her Nov. 5 induction to the. It may come as a surprise that Cotten is the first guitarist from the Washington area to be inducted, especially when you consider that the hall has yet to welcome D.C. guitar legends such as Link Wray , Danny Gatton and John Fahey, among others.
She worked cleaning houses to buy a $3.75 Stella guitar, and it became her constant companion. After her marriage at age 15, she was told by church elders to stop performing music because it did not serve God. Then came the demands of motherhood, so she put away her guitar and abandoned her musical pursuits for more than three decades.
Mike bought a guitar for “Libba,” a nickname from the Seeger family that stuck. In 1957, he produced her first album, “Negro Folk Songs and Tunes,” recorded on a portable tape machine at her house; it introduced “Freight Train” to the world. Starting in 1960, he also introduced the 67-year-old to folk-revival audiences in concerts at colleges and festivals.
The musicians traveled in a van together, and Gerrard found in Cotten an easygoing road companion with a “regal” presence both onstage and off. In a way, it was an extended homecoming for the girl who left the South so young, as if she was now reclaiming her birthright. “She was quietly charismatic,” says Gerrard. “She wasn’t at all showy. She was very elegant and very dignified.”
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