This musician performed “Shake, Sugaree” for a 1983 live album that won her a Grammy at the age of 90. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this folk musician behind the song “Freight Train.” Her namesake style of guitar picking requires playing the melody with the thumb while holding the guitar upside-down.
ANSWER: Elizabeth Cotten [or Libba Cotten; or Elizabeth Nevills; or Libba Nevills; accept “Cotten picking”]
[10e] Cotten’s music gained popularity during the ‘50s and ‘60s folk revival due to the influence of this family, who employed Cotten as a maid. Pete, a folk singer and activist from this family, popularized “We Shall Overcome.”
ANSWER: Seeger family [accept Pete Seeger or Peter Seeger]
[10m] “Freight Train” was covered by the Quarrymen, a skiffle band from this city. A later band from this city recorded the tongue-in-cheek song “Yer Blues” and plagiarized Chuck Berry’s “You Can’t Catch Me.”
ANSWER: Liverpool (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison were in the Quarrymen before the Beatles. The plagiarism case refers to “Come Together.”)
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