![]() ![]() ![]() I want to understand how ladies play big guitars. Peggy Seeger pictured with Ewan MacColl to whom she was married until his passing in 1989 (Image credit: Scott Whitehair/Fairfax Media via Getty Images) She was playing “Freight Train” and Mike and I learned it the wrong way around (the finger did what the thumb normally would do) just to see what she was doing. I said: "What?! Libba, you’ve got it the wrong way around!" and she was very apologetic because she obviously thought that she was on her own. I came into the kitchen one day – I would’ve been about 15 – and was playing “Freight Train”. The guitar just hung on the kitchen wall, and you took it down whenever you wanted to play it. My brother, Mike, was another influence on my upbringing he was a more skilled guitar player and we both learned fingerpicking. She wanted to play the guitar but didn’t have the mind for it. My mother didn’t play any other instruments than the piano. He was born in Mexico and he and I used to play Spanish songs – that’s how I started playing guitar, when I was about nine. We had a family guitar that hung in the kitchen that belonged to everybody. ![]()
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