In The Shadows Of Giants
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**Etta Baker** was born into a musical family in rural North Carolina in 1913. A self-taught guitarist, she became a regional favorite, Playin' parties, fish fries, barn dances & small bars, she only recorded a few sides in her time, but one of them, **One Dime Blues** has become a staple of the blues lexicon.Etta Baker and **Libby Cotton** represented a favorite style of blues playing, the female instrumentalist, idiosyncratic and unique, favored in the rural south-east.In the blues canon these women truely worked in the shadow of giants. Rarely did they record, and when they did the records were, often as not, only distributed regionaly.**Etta** only recorded a few sides, as I said, and then only in 1956.+this+ version was recorded in 1992 at the Wolf Trap, in Virginia. **One Dime Blues** is usually associated with **Blind Lemon Jefferson**. Etta Baker's instrumental version became a favorite of the jukebox circuit through-out the rural south in the late fifties & early sixties.
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shoulda guessed you would have posted about her before-thanks for the info on libby cotton!!