Of course, Libba wasn't "rediscovered". She never had an early career that I ever heard about. She never recorded earlier in her life as did John Hurt.

Libba was the housekeeper for the Seeger family and Mike and Peggy were rather amazed when she picked for them once when they were younger. They brought attention to her and made it possible for her to meet Moe Ashe and record for his Folkways Records label. The rest is history.

Folk revivalist and songwriter, Bill Staines, plays finger-style left handed guitar without restringing his guitar---same way Libba did.

I've heard it jokingly said that Libba, playing upside down and backwards the way she did, had a terrible time keeping her skirt down !! ;-)

(art thieme)