Don M.,

Thank you BUT... The version of "SHAKE SUGAREE" that's on the first LP I did for Sandy Paton on Folk Legacy was one that had gone through the folk process like Jedediah Smith running the gauntlet to eascape the Blackfeet tribe. In the notes I wrote for that LP I said: "With profuse apologies to the composer of this song, Elizabeth Cotten, I admit that the folk process has altered this song a bit. First of all, I learned the song in 1965 from Lisa Kindred who had already changed it from the original. Then I added a verse or two of my own, tossed in a minor chord or two (or three). Both the words and the tune are now quite different from the original. Other than that, it's the same song. **BIG GRIN**

Elizabeth Cotten played her guitar left handed but strung it the same way one would string a guitar to play it right handed. I.E. her guitar was upside-down-------with the treble strings on top and the bass on the bottom. That's upside-down from the way the strings'd normally be.

Bill Stains also plays this way---upside-down. (For Elizabeth that meant she had a hell of a time keeping her skirt down. ;-) **another BG**

Art Thieme