Me & Stella

Name: Me & Stella
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: 1976-01-01
Duration: 24 min
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Year: 1976

Runtime: 24 min

Type: Movie

Genre: Music, Documentary

Overview

Geri Ashur’s Me & Stella traces the life of blues musician, folk singer, and composer Elizabeth Cotten—and her guitar, Stella—who is best known for writing the folk standard “Freight Train.” After spending her early teenage years writing songs and playing the guitar, Cotten put her musical career on hold for three decades. Encouraged by the very musical Seeger family, for whom she worked as a maid, Cotten started recording and became a star in the 1960s burgeoning folk revival at an age when most people are contemplating retirement.