Home Uncategorized “Her technique is particularly difficult to replicate because she played ‘upside down’ on a guitar strung for arighty”: Sue Foley salutes Elizabeth Cotten and her favorite female guitar pioneers in this fingerpicking blues masterclass

“Her technique is particularly difficult to replicate because she played ‘upside down’ on a guitar strung for arighty”: Sue Foley salutes Elizabeth Cotten and her favorite female guitar pioneers in this fingerpicking blues masterclass

September 12, 2025 comments off

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Foley’s latest lesson unpacks the Piedmont fingerpicking style perfected by the likes of Elizabeth Cotten – and there’s some Memphis Minnie, too

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