Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar
by Elizabeth Cotten
eBay
Condition: New
eBay
Condition: New
Elizabeth Cotten bestography
Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar is ranked as the best album by Elizabeth Cotten.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
Upcoming concerts
Listen to Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar on YouTube
Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar rankings
bertrandu
Hayden
Patman360
Norman Bates
KitchenSink
baystateoftheart
Wasinski
flamingyesdeptFolksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar collection
Showing all 13 members who have this album in their collection
Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.
Showing latest 5 ratings for this album. | Show all 50 ratings for this album.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 02/09/2026 07:16 |  CellarDoor | 8,207 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/21/2025 16:53 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,449 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 02:44 |  LedZep | 4,911 | 79/100 |
| ! | 11/07/2025 19:34 | Guigou | 1,363 | 75/100 |
| ! | 11/05/2025 16:18 | TonySayers61 | 23,641 | 64/100 |
Rating metrics:
Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.2/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar favourites
Showing all 7 members who have added this album as a favourite
Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar comments
Showing all 2 comments |
Most Helpful First | Newest First | Positive Sentiment First |
Longest Comments First
(Only showing comments with -2 votes or higher. You can alter this threshold from your profile page. Manage Profile)
RoundTheBend 02/11/2016 01:32 | #159299
I'll admit the voice threw me off, so I appreciate MeccaLecca saying something about her age at the time of the recording. At first glance this is like an amateur recording from some old lady, but as you truly pay attention, it has some of the sweetest/real to life recordings I've ever heard. There's no convoluted performance. No trickery of any kind, just pure human.
meccalecca 12/04/2013 19:02 | #96342
From here lies the origin of the term “Cotten-picking”, based around her unique technique of guitar playing. Recorded in the 50s, while Cotten was in her 60s, Freight Train & Other North Carolina Folk Songs & Tunes is a collection of songs that Elizabeth Cotten had originally written in the early 1900s as a young girl. Freight Train, the most famous song of Cotten’s career was written when she was only 11 years old. Dusty, intimate folk, Cotten’s aged voice cries with the wisdom of an old soul. It’s hard to imagine the songs providing such an impact when sung in her youth. The marriage of the playful songs of her youth with the weathered voice of her 60s bridges a gap that is rarely left to be returned to.
Your feedback for Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar
A lot of hard work happens in the background to keep BEA running, and it's especially difficult to do this when we can't pay our hosting fees :(
We work very hard to ensure our site is as fast (and FREE!) as possible, and we respect your privacy.
