Get Off My Lawn - Gavin McInnes - January 24, 2023


S4E208 - LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE GIRLS


Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

127.82609

Word count

637

Sentence count

80

Harmful content

Misogyny

9

sentences flagged

Hate speech

7

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Summary

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Libba Cotton, better known as Libby Cotton, was a North Carolina singer-songwriter who died in 1987 at the age of 86. She was one of the most underrated and underappreciated musicians of all time.

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00:00:05.000 I'm gonna play freight train and I'm gonna play it in the style of cotton picking style. 1.00
00:00:10.000 That's for two fingers.
00:00:13.000 Live from New York, it's Get Off My Lot with Kevin McKinnon.
00:00:20.000 It's a right time to stop, and I'm going to play this in cotton picking style. 1.00
00:00:25.000 Free train, free train.
00:00:49.000 Jesus in my grave, yeah.
00:01:15.000 I crave a stone at my head.
00:01:20.000 That means tell them all that I'm gone to sleep.
00:01:30.000 That's Elizabeth Cotton, also known as Libba Cotton.
00:01:34.000 Born 1893, died in 1987.
00:01:38.000 Underrated, fascinating old lady. 0.99
00:01:42.000 She was born.
00:01:43.000 Where was she born?
00:01:44.000 Look up where she was born.
00:01:45.000 Probably Louisiana, some such thing.
00:01:50.000 She always wanted a guitar, and her mama bought her one.
00:01:53.000 She was a house servant, a maid. 1.00
00:01:57.000 And her mama bought her one from Sears, Sears Roebuck, $13, equivalent of about $113 today.
00:02:02.000 Where's she from now? 0.97
00:02:04.000 Chapel Hill.
00:02:05.000 Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
00:02:06.000 Which would later be incorporated into Carboro.
00:02:10.000 Okay.
00:02:10.000 So the thing about Libba is, she got this guitar.
00:02:15.000 It's a right-handed guitar.
00:02:16.000 She's left-handed.
00:02:16.000 She do everything with the left-hand.
00:02:18.000 So she flip it upside down.
00:02:20.000 She started playing it upside down.
00:02:22.000 Now, she practiced originally with a banjo.
00:02:25.000 The banjo, the top string is a kind of a crazy string.
00:02:28.000 You can't use it as no bass.
00:02:30.000 So she got to work around that.
00:02:31.000 So when she bring it to the guitar, she started doing this thing where she does, well, she would play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with a thumb.
00:02:46.000 Her signature alternating bass style has become known as cotton picking.
00:02:51.000 And she just plucked away.
00:02:52.000 She reminds me of that Scottish motherfucker, Burt Janch. 1.00
00:02:56.000 You know who named her Elizabeth?
00:02:59.000 Whom did?
00:03:00.000 She did it.
00:03:00.000 First day of school.
00:03:01.000 What's your name, girl?
00:03:03.000 I don't know.
00:03:03.000 How about Elizabeth?
00:03:05.000 She'd made it.
00:03:06.000 Her mama never named her.
00:03:07.000 Mama called her little sis.
00:03:08.000 She was the youngest.
00:03:09.000 So she just said, how about Elizabeth?
00:03:12.000 Then one of the kids she worked for when she's old as hell, Libba, called her Libba.
00:03:16.000 Couldn't say Elizabeth.
00:03:17.000 So then she goes, I like that name.
00:03:19.000 I'm Libba now.
00:03:20.000 Known as Libba.
00:03:24.000 She started this music.
00:03:25.000 The type of music she played became known as Skiffle.
00:03:28.000 Real big in the 50s in England.
00:03:32.000 So over there, some motherfucker take it. 1.00
00:03:34.000 And Nancy Whiskey is her name. 0.95
00:03:36.000 She just stole the song. 1.00
00:03:37.000 Libba wrote that song from scratch.
00:03:39.000 You heard?
00:03:40.000 Yes, I did.
00:03:41.000 Oh, it's Libba. 0.89
00:03:43.000 Oh, howdy do.
00:03:44.000 Libba, now I'm understanding that freight train, you wrote that, you know, because you heard a freight train going by when you were a little girl.
00:03:51.000 Yes, sir, I did.
00:03:53.000 And now, now, now, Nancy Whiskey, she done take that song from you. 1.00
00:03:58.000 Oh, that's what they say.
00:04:00.000 That she go ahead and took my good old fruit pickings from the bottom of the tree limbs.
00:04:05.000 We got it here, number one, three.
00:04:07.000 Number one, three, Nancy Whiskey.
00:04:10.000 No, no, number one, three, you stupid old bitch. 1.00
00:04:13.000 I ain't such for numbers, you see.
00:04:15.000 Okay, well, learn to read at least.
00:04:17.000 Mr. Fancy Soup fucking bitch has a name. 1.00
00:04:19.000 What'd you say to me?
00:04:20.000 No, no, no.
00:04:22.000 Want me to get my Switch, girl?
00:04:23.000 No, please, no.
00:04:28.000 Oh, they done souped it up.
00:04:29.000 Freight train, freight train, going so fast.
00:04:33.000 Freight train, freight train, going so fast.
00:04:36.000 I don't know what train he's on.
00:04:40.000 Won't you tell me where he's gone?
00:04:43.000 I think it's funny how these British people, they think that talking simple is like an affectation and you're trying to be simplified.
00:04:50.000 But Libba, you were just speaking how you spoke.
00:04:53.000 Yeah, now that I watch this, I am getting kind of pissed off.
00:04:56.000 Don't worry.
00:04:57.000 Remember the Seekers? 0.63