January 5 was the birthday of folk and blues singer Libba Cotten (Elizabeth Nevills, 1893-1987). Cotten's best known song is "Freight Train", off her 1958 Folkways album Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar , a.k.a. Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes and (originally) Elizabeth Cotten: Negro Folk Songs and Tunes. It became a standard among […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:14AM on January 5, 2023