Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (Rare Live Performance)

Music Video by Elizabeth Cotten performing her Freight Train classic in this historic footage from the University of Washington, courtesy of the Seattle Folklore Society.

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A classic folk music icon, Elizabeth Cotten self-taught herself how to play guitar and banjo. Being left-handed, she flipped a right-handed guitar upside down and as such played with the strings reversed. Elizabeth Cotten's style is unique and talent undeniable.

In an amateur attempt at a 4k remaster, this 1960's video footage has been re-run through Topaz 4k AI software. A 25% layer of that somewhat animated looking output was overlaid on top of the upscaled original, with video artifacts and noise largely kept intact.

The audio has also been run through through some very mild compression and noise reduction, again overlaid to a lesser degree over the original audio - and then all normalized.

The aim was to create a slightly cleaner and crisper output, without it looking too "rendery" or robotic. However as mentioned this was an amateur experiment so constructive criticism is certainly welcome!

Please comment what you think and let us know what we could do better next time around? Thanks for watching and listening!

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