Elizabeth Cotten’s Sears and Roebuck 1904 Acoustic Guitar a.k.a “Stella.” (Cost at the time: $3.75). A self-taught left-handed guitarist, and creator of the alternating bass style known as “Cotten picking,” Elizabeth Cotten liked to play this right handed-guitar upside down. Twenty five years after retiring as a guitarist, Folkways Records picked her up in the early 1960’s where she went on to inspire a generation of folk revival artists to cover her songs.
~Doc Watson, Jerry✍️
