[piano intro] "Freight Train Blues" is funded in part by Come Hear NC.

A program of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

[gentle acoustic music] ♪ ♪ Freight train, freight train ♪ - [Narrator] Welcome to the Annual Freight Train Blues Concert Series, celebrating the life and legacy of Piedmont blue's legend Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten.

Born in 1893 in Carrboro, North Carolina, some of Cotten's best known compositions reside in the canon of American music, with noted covers by the Grateful Dead, Joan Baez and Doc Watson.

Today, her legacy is being discovered by a new generation of artists and performers.

♪ Freight train run so fast ♪ - [Narrator] This episode features million-record-selling Southern rock architect Harvey Dalton Arnold.

Born in Rose Hill, North Carolina, Harvey took to the musical road in his teens, later joining The Outlaws touring stadiums.

His latest album, "Stories to Live Up To," was released in 2019 on Music Maker.

- [Libba] Thank you so much.

[audience applauds] [blues music] ["Put Me Back"] ♪ I say hey baby ♪ ♪ What you doing to me ♪ ♪ I say hey baby ♪ ♪ What you doing to me ♪ ♪ Can't you put me back to the way I used to be ♪ [upbeat blues music] ♪ Got me so I can't sleep at night ♪ ♪ I'm crying like a baby out in the daylight ♪ ♪ And I say hey baby ♪ ♪ What you doing to me ♪ ♪ Can't you put me back to the way I used to be ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ I used to wake up in the morning ♪ ♪ Singing howdy do ♪ ♪ Now I worry every day ♪ ♪ If I'll ever make it through ♪ ♪ And I say hey baby ♪ ♪ What you doing to me ♪ ♪ Can't you put me back to the way I used to be ♪ ♪ Oh yeah ♪ [upbeat blues music] [blues guitar solo] [music crescendos] ♪ People are talking behind my back ♪ ♪ Saying run out on me like some lympho-maniac ♪ ♪ And I say hey baby ♪ ♪ What you doing to me ♪ ♪ Can't you put me back to the way I used to be ♪ ♪ Now my friends are talking behind my back ♪ ♪ Saying you run around on me like some lympho-maniac ♪ ♪ And I say hey ♪ ♪ What you doing to me ♪ ♪ Can't you put me back to the way I used to be ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ You know and I know that a woman can ♪ ♪ Make a broken heart where there was once a man ♪ ♪ And I say hey ♪ ♪ What you doing ♪ ♪ What you doing to me ♪ ♪ Can't you put me back to the way I used to be ♪ ♪ Can't you put me back to the way I used to be ♪ ♪ Can't you put me back to the way ♪ ♪ I used ♪ ♪ To be ♪ [blues guitar solo] ♪ Ow ♪ [blues music slows] - Ooh, Lord!

Hey, good afternoon or evening or whatever you're doing or whatever time it is.

My name is Harvey Dalton Arnold.

I'm from Pleasant Grove, North Carolina.

Try to find that.

And these are my cronies, my peeps from Snow Camp, Tim Carey, and on the bass, Darrell Young.

He's from Burlington, North Carolina.

And newly from Haw River.

Is that right?

Greg Germino.

So we're here today to honor the legacy of Elizabeth Cotten and the Freight Train Series that town of Carrboro and Music Maker Relief Foundation have given us the opportunity to do and to play and I wish we were all sitting with our shoes off and our Valium dresses or whatever, and out at the farmer's market, but we're here and we're gonna have a good time like we always do.

Thank you.

[blues guitar music] [jazzy blues music] ["Things About Coming My Way"] ♪ Lost all my money ♪ ♪ Didn't have a dime ♪ ♪ Thought I would leave ♪ ♪ This old world behind ♪ ♪ But after all my hard travelin' ♪ ♪ Things about coming my way ♪ ♪ When I was sick ♪ ♪ Down in my bed ♪ ♪ My friends forgot me ♪ ♪ Said I was dead ♪ ♪ And after all my hard travelin' ♪ ♪ Things about coming my way ♪ [jazzy blues music continues] [blues guitar solo] ♪ Wind blowing pretty hard ♪ ♪ Ain't got no friend ♪ ♪ People travelin' ♪ ♪ They're going to need your help again ♪ ♪ And after all my hard travelin' ♪ ♪ Things about coming my way ♪ ♪ I'm always happy ♪ ♪ Oh I ain't never sad ♪ ♪ Thinking about the good time rivers ahead ♪ ♪ And after all my hard travelin' ♪ ♪ Things about coming my way ♪ [jazzy blues music continues] [blues guitar solo] ♪ I told my neighbors ♪ ♪ My neighbors and all my friends ♪ ♪ Why I was a mistreater ♪ ♪ And you won't have me back again ♪ ♪ And after all my hard travelin' ♪ ♪ Things about coming my way ♪ ♪ Yes it is ♪ ♪ So take me back ♪ ♪ Just as I am ♪ ♪ I ain't got no money ♪ ♪ I'm in a jam ♪ ♪ And after all my hard travelin' ♪ ♪ Things about coming my way ♪ ♪ And after all my hard travelin' ♪ ♪ Things about coming my way ♪ ♪ Ah ♪ Yeah, Lord.

I'm gonna switch guitars real quick.

Thank you very much.

[country rock music] ["Corn Liquor"] [country rock music continues] ♪ Well the sun don't shine ♪ ♪ On a moonshine still ♪ ♪ Copper line hiding in the side of a hill ♪ ♪ Yeah it'll get you there ♪ ♪ It'll get you there quicker ♪ ♪ A fruit jar full of that good corn liquor ♪ [country rock music continues] ♪ Oh when I was young ♪ ♪ 'Bout five or six ♪ ♪ Well my daddy lost a job and my mama took sick ♪ ♪ Oh and times got tough ♪ ♪ And my mama got sicker ♪ ♪ My daddy started running that good corn liquor ♪ ♪ Well the sun don't shine ♪ ♪ On a moonshine still ♪ ♪ Copper line hiding in the side of a hill ♪ ♪ Oh and it'll get you there ♪ ♪ It'll get you there quicker ♪ ♪ Fruit jar full of that good corn liquor ♪ ♪ All right ♪ [country rock music continues] [electric guitar solo] [electric guitar solo continues] ♪ Yeah I remember that night ♪ ♪ It was a blood red moon ♪ ♪ And my daddy was doing what he had to do ♪ ♪ And when a shots rang out ♪ ♪ And the sheriff pulled the trigger ♪ ♪ My daddy stopped running that good corn liquor ♪ ♪ Well the sun don't shine ♪ ♪ On a moonshine still ♪ ♪ Copper line hiding in the side of the hill ♪ ♪ It'll get you there ♪ ♪ It'll get you there quicker ♪ ♪ Fruit jar full of that good corn liquor ♪ [country rock music slows] Chris Stapleton, that's kind of an old one he had with a band called SteelDrivers.

Liked that one for a long time.

I came from corn liquor country.

They taught it in school.

Another one off our album.

[blues guitar music] ["Poor Boy"] ♪ Born in a small town ♪ ♪ I could not wait to get away ♪ ♪ Born a in a small town ♪ ♪ And I could not wait to get away ♪ ♪ And I give everything ♪ ♪ To be living there today ♪ ♪ What is a poor boy supposed to do ♪ ♪ I ran away to the city ♪ ♪ Where life would treat me so unkind ♪ ♪ I ran away to the city ♪ ♪ What a pity ♪ ♪ Life would treat me so unkind ♪ ♪ I did some hard, hard living ♪ ♪ And so left that simple life behind ♪ ♪ What is poor boy supposed to do ♪ ♪ Shadows on a window ♪ ♪ The night I walk to my baby's home ♪ ♪ Silhouettes on the shade ♪ ♪ Showed the love that was made ♪ ♪ As I stood in the street all alone ♪ ♪ I lost my very mind ♪ ♪ Feeling feelings that I had never known ♪ ♪ What is a poor boy supposed to do ♪ ♪ Hard time, hard times in the city ♪ ♪ I always had my .44 ♪ ♪ Those are days ♪ ♪ Just in case I always had my .44 ♪ ♪ I still can't remember ♪ ♪ They say I shot those shadows down to the floor ♪ ♪ What is a poor boy supposed to do ♪ [blues guitar solo] [blues guitar solo continues] ♪ Born in a small town ♪ ♪ I could not wait to get away ♪ ♪ Born in a small town ♪ ♪ And I could not wait to get away ♪ ♪ Locked here in my lovely room ♪ ♪ Dreamin' that I was there today ♪ ♪ What is a poor boy supposed to do ♪ [blues music ends] Oh, thank you very much and thank you again town of Carrboro.

Thank you Elizabeth Cotten for doing what you did and it still lives in our hearts.

Thank you, Music Maker Relief Foundation.

They've been around 25 years and I think I've been with them maybe 15 years and they just do marvelous work for needy senior musicians and young musicians and they're just great people and may they go 25 more years.

Thank you very much.

One for The Outlaws fans.

[country rock music] ["Cold and Lonesome"] ♪ Well I've been tom-cattin' ♪ ♪ Such a long time now ♪ ♪ Runnin' into open arms ♪ ♪ Just to walk right out ♪ ♪ But now all that I'd needed ♪ ♪ Just don't get it anymore ♪ ♪ And this cold and lonesome feelin' ♪ ♪ Has got to go ♪ [electric guitar solo] ♪ There's this here one lady ♪ ♪ Keeps on comin' around ♪ ♪ And I'm thinkin' that maybe ♪ ♪ This is love we've found ♪ ♪ She said she could save me ♪ ♪ There's no real way to know ♪ ♪ And this cold and lonesome feelin' ♪ ♪ Has got to go, yeah ♪ ♪ Well that one-time woman ♪ ♪ Gave her all my love ♪ ♪ Thought for sure she was satisfied ♪ ♪ Then the changes came ♪ ♪ And run on the rain ♪ ♪ And my sun refused to shine ♪ [electric guitar solo] [electric guitar solo continues] ♪ Woman hold me near and listen here ♪ ♪ Gotta love you one more time ♪ ♪ If it is the same ♪ ♪ There won't be no rain ♪ ♪ We'll just move on down the line ♪ ♪ This road keeps rollin' ♪ ♪ And darlin' I must too ♪ ♪ But these arms won't be holdin' ♪ ♪ Nobody else but you ♪ ♪ You can read it in my letters ♪ ♪ You can hear it on the phone ♪ ♪ That this cold and lonesome feelin' ♪ ♪ Has got to go ♪ ♪ This cold and lonesome feelin' ♪ ♪ Has got to go ♪ ♪ Gotta go ♪ ♪ Soon ♪ ♪ All right ♪ ♪ Real soon ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ [country rock music continues] ♪ Oh yeah ♪ [country rock music slows] And thank you.

Woo!

[acoustic guitar music] ["Freight Train"] ♪ Oh freight train, freight train down the line ♪ ♪ Freight train, freight train down the line ♪ ♪ Please don't tell what train I'm on ♪ ♪ Don't know what route I'm goin' ♪ [acoustic guitar music continues] ♪ Please don't tell what train I'm on ♪ ♪ Don't know what route I'm goin' ♪ - [Libba] Freight train.

[Libba laughing] "Freight Train Blues" is funded in part by Come Hear NC.

A program of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.