Topic: Etta Baker -- now on DVD

[outfidel]

The Fingerpicking Blues of Etta Baker

 

[si]

See the sample movie clip at the previous link. It's short but gives a good idea of what an unusually good guitarist Etta is, and a wonderful person too..
You can listen to "Railroad Bill" "John Henry" and "Mint Julep" at
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/musicmakerstore/ettabaker.html
I sometimes play an adaption of Etta's "Mint Julep" at open sessions.

[outfidel]

Well my Etta DVD arrived yesterday, and I flipped through the video before bedtime last night. This looks like one of the few lessons where:
1) I want to learn every song on the video, and
2) I have the ability (I think) to play the songs reasonably well

fyi the only other lessons I have that meet both criteria are the MJH & Libba Cotten videos taught by John Miller.

[dabluz]

got mine in the mail tonight. great stuff. i think i'm really going to enjoy this dvd for awhile.

[Stuart]

It's an excellent video. If you don't have it already, you should get "Instrumental Music Of the Southern Appalachians" that was done in 1956 and also has cuts of her father's playing, if I remember correctly.

[Bluesygirl]

Well my Etta DVD arrived yesterday, and I flipped through the video before bedtime last night. This looks like one of the few lessons where:
1) I want to learn every song on the video, and
2) I have the ability (I think) to play the songs reasonably well

fyi the only other lessons I have that meet both criteria are the MJH & Libba Cotten videos taught by John Miller.

I think we are in the same boat Outfidel! I just got this video too as well as the Traum/Sebastian DVD on MJH.  What a wonderful inspiration Etta is, especially for us ladies  !

[outfidel]

I think we are in the same boat Outfidel! I just got this video too as well as the Traum/Sebastian DVD on MJH.? What a wonderful inspiration Etta is, especially for us ladies? !

As BlindSockeyeSalmon says, we must be in the same karass.?

The thing about Etta Baker is that she sounds like the lost daughter of Mississippi John Hurt and Elizabeth Cotten -- and MJH & LIbba are two of my all-time favorite musicians. Plus, Etta will take songs like "Careless Love" and "Railroad Bill" that have been played thousands of times, and do her? own beautiful and unique version. What an artist!