TY  - BOOK
AU  - Veirs,Laura
AU  - Fazlalizadeh,Tatyana
TI  - Libba: the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten 
SN  - 9781452148571 (alk. paper) :
AV  - ML3930.C67 V45 2018
U1  - 782.42162/130092B 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - Chronicle Books
KW  - Cotten, Elizabeth
KW  - Cotten, Elizabeth.
KW  - African American women singers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Singers
KW  - United States
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Music
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Girls & Women
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Music
N1  - 5-8; Brodart; K-3; Brodart
N2  - Elizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she picked up a guitar for the first time. It wasn't hers (it was her big brother's), and it wasn't strung right for her (she was left-handed). But she flipped that guitar upside down and backwards and taught herself how to play it anyway. By age eleven, she'd written "Freight Train," one of the most famous folk songs of the twentieth century. And by the end of her life, people everywhere from the sunny beaches of California to the rolling hills of England knew her music
ER  -