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Who was the first native West Virginian elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame?
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Curly Ray Cline played fiddle with this bluegrass band.
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South Charleston native Larry Combs is most associated with this instrument.
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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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"Salt Pork, West Virginia" tells the story of musician Louis Jordan's arrest in this city.
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At age 91, Randolph County's Woody Simmons won the over-60 banjo contest at what festival?
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In 1966, this country singer had a hit with the recitation "History Repeats Itself."
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This Tucker County native was known as "America's Polka King?"
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What West Virginian, playing with the Lilly Brothers, helped popularize bluegrass music in Boston?
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This Mercer County native was the first bluegrass musician to appear on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine.
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