Hi @36ftv just catching up & I have notes re: Sugaree and whether it& #39;s a cover. Despite all the great indy rock guitarists, I enjoy calling Elizabeth Cotten the best Chapel Hill ever produced, and it& #39;s her song "Shake Sugaree" in question.

It& #39;s a weak claim, the chords, melody, groove, & story are all different. Cotten& #39;s chorus goes, "Oh lordy me/didn& #39;t I shake sugaree", an old timey practice of spreading sugar on the floor before a dance, and when everyone stomps the sugar bounces & makes a percussion sound.

Late in life, Cotten& #39;s people got in touch with Jerry & hit him with claims. In non-confrontational Jerry fashion, he convinces them the record company is a pain to deal with to change the royalties, but he& #39;ll record another song - Oh Babe It Ain& #39;t No Lie - and give her all the $

It greatly helped the last 20+ years of her life, and local apocryphal stories say that she loved modern appliances and when people would ask where she got such-and-such, she& #39;d say "oh, some dead people in San Francisco take care of me"

And of course Cotten loved the shit out of a dishwasher, she served racist white Chapel Hill families for 50 years. Oh Babe It Ain& #39;t No Lie is quietly savage