The Wailin' Jennys- Motherless Child

Before Deion Sanders.
Before Bo Jackson.
Before Michael Jordan.
There was Jim Thorpe.
Jim Thorpe was a Native American that is considered to be one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports. 
He won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentahalon and decathalon.
He played American football (here we just call it football) at the collegiate and professional levels.
He played professional basketball and professional baseball.
In 1912, in a college football game against Army, Thorpe led his team to a 27-6 victory over Army.
During that game, future President Dwight Eisenhower injured his knee trying to tackle Thorpe.
Eisenhower recalled of Thorpe in a 1961 speech, "Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed. My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw."
Unfortunately, he ended his athletic career during the Great Depression.
He found it difficult to work outside sports and never kept a job for an extended period of time.
By the 1950's, Thorpe had no money left.  When he was hospitilized for lip cancer in 1950, he was admitted as a charity case.
He died in 1953 of a heart attack.
When Thorpe's third wife, Patricia, heard that the small Pennsylvania towns of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk were desperately seeking to attract business, she struck a deal with the towns. Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk bought Thorpe's remains, erected a monument to him, merged and renamed the newly united town in his honor, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, despite the fact that Thorpe had never set foot there.
The Wailin' Jennys are a Juno award winning Canadian folk trio.  Their name is a pun on the country singer, Waylon Jennings.
They indeed, have been to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.  They recorded "Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House" in 2008.
In the words of a Village Records review of the album, "I’m sure it’s a revered and wonderful building, but how does the name of an opera house end up with the word chunk in it?"