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What country music star began his career in the C-Notes band?
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This singer was known as "Charleston's First Lady of Jazz."
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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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"Walk the Way the Wind Blows" was the first major hit for this native West Virginian.
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This Fayette County native played guitar on several Bob Dylan albums and was music director of the TV show Hee Haw.
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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 Braxton County fiddler was the first West Virginian to be named a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow.
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Who broke Connie Smith's 50-year run for most consecutive weeks with a country song at number one on the charts?
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Which Lincoln County native cofounded the band MC-5?
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