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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Central OklahomaWUSTL A0101020
Central OklahomaWUSTL A0101020
Central OklahomaWUSTL A0101020
Central OklahomaWUSTL A0101020
Mississippi StateMcGill E100010
Vassar ACentral Oklahoma10101030
Central OklahomaWUSTL A0101020
Central OklahomaWUSTL A0101020
Central OklahomaWUSTL A0101020
Central OklahomaWUSTL A0101020
IowaVassar A0101020
McGill ETexas A001010
NYU BMississippi State001010
NYU ATexas D001010
Texas COle Miss001010
Texas BColorado College001010