Hearts and more

May 24

The Zeros

I was just thinking about these guys the other night. need a listen.

vinyloid:

Josie Cotton - He Could Be The One

It was many years before I learned that “Johnny Are You Queer” was originally known as “Fetch Me One More Beer.”

he could be the one is my favorite josie cotton song

lovingthesixties:

Mick Jagger and Chrissie Shrimpton photographed in 1963.

this makes me want to chop my locks

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ginandbird:

(via Tomboy Style)

Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten has been covered by Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, and Taj Majal. She played in the home of Senator John F. Kennedy. She’s a Grammy winner. The Smithsonian Institute recognized her as a “living treasure”. But more impressive than all of that, at just 11 years old, Cotten went door-to-door looking for work to save up the $3.75 required to purchase a Stella guitar from a local dry-goods store in North Carolina. Eventually after making less that $1 per month as a house helper, the guitar was hers. She taught herself how to play a right-handed strung guitar upside down with her left hand, which produced a singular and inimitable style later known affectionately as “Cotten picking”. Cotten wrote the seminal hit Freight Train before she was a teenager, but didn’t find recognition until many decades later. Her legend certainly lives on as she is today considered a beacon of folk music history. For more on Cotten, check out this video of one of her last (if not the last) recorded performances and interviews.

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