Question

This family names a style of guitar picking that plays the melody on the three lowest strings while strumming the three highest strings to imitate the banjo’s clawhammer style. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this “First Family of Country Music” that includes A. P., his wife Sara, and his sister-in-law. This family made “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” a country music standard.
ANSWER: Carter family
[10m] Maybelle Carter learned her signature picking style from Lesley Riddle, who collected songs for the Carters like a “Blues” titled for this profession. Loretta Lynn’s best-known song is titled for the “Daughter” of someone in this profession.
ANSWER: coal miner [accept “Coal Miner’s Blues”; accept “Coal Miner’s Daughter”; prompt on miner]
[10e] Maybelle Carter later toured with this country musician, who married her daughter June. This “Man in Black” recorded “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Ring of Fire.”
ANSWER: Johnny Cash
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A Brandeis SupremeBoston University A001010
Brown ABrandeises Brew0101020
MIT ACarabrandeis001010
Yale CHarvard A0000
Yale ATufts A0101020
Northeastern ATufts B0000
Williams AYale B001010
Diamond BrandeisAmherst A001010