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Tapestry of the Times - episode #29: “Ladies First”

From: Tapestry of the Times
Length: 00:58:56

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North Carolina’s Elizabeth Cotton shows off how to play a guitar upside down and backwards, Blues piano legend Victoria Spivey puts her man in his place, New Orleans chanteuse Lizzy Miles asks ‘Who’s sorry now?’, Lucinda Williams mourns a one-night stand, Peggy Seeger sounds off on the pitfalls of matrimony, and Kazakh bardic diva Ulzhan Baibussynova sings an epic poem.  Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds…

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North Carolina’s Elizabeth Cotton shows off how to play a guitar upside down and backwards, Blues piano legend Victoria Spivey puts her man in his place, New Orleans chanteuse Lizzy Miles asks ‘Who’s sorry now?’, Lucinda Williams mourns a one-night stand, Peggy Seeger sounds off on the pitfalls of matrimony, and Kazakh bardic diva Ulzhan Baibussynova sings an epic poem.  Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds…

(Like all Tapestry of the Times materials, this program can be licensed free of charge.)

Broadcast History

Tapestry of the Times airs Saturday nights at 8 o'clock on WYPR in Baltimore, Maryland, and Saturday afternoons at 4 o'clock on KEOS in Bryan, Texas.

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