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Curly Ray Cline played fiddle with this bluegrass band.
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This Charleston native received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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Which TV show did this Moundsville native NOT write the theme song for?
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In 1966, this Kanawha County fiddler performed on the Grand Ole Opry, The Today Show, and at the prestigious Newport Folk Festival.
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This West Virginia Music Hall of Fame member was the half-sister of Bessie Smith, known as the "Empress of the Blues."
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In 2011, Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. received national acclaim after winning this TV contest.
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This person was NOT an inaugural inductee into the West Virginia Hall of Fame in 2007.
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This banjo player was the subject of a documentary made by international recording artist Taj Majal.
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Ida L. Reed of Barbour County was best known for writing this style of music.
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This Clarksburg native's "Simpson Creek" is considered one of the earliest environmentalist songs.
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