Shake Sugaree
Released on Elizabeth Cotten, Vol. 2 - Shake Sugaree (1967)
Covered by
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- Real name
- Elizabeth Nevills Cotten
- Born
- January 5, 1893
- Died
- June 29, 1987
- Country
- United States
- IPI
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00006944485 7 works
- Affiliation
- BMI
- Comments
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Sometimes referred to as Elizabeth Cotton, Cotten was a blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter.
Hired by the Seegers in 1945 as housemaid in their Washington DC residence. As a child, she had learned to play the guitar and the banjo, but stopped playing when she joined the church in the 1920s. Working in a house full of musicians encouraged her to pick up the guitar again.
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