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Old-time musician Dwight Diller spent years documenting and teaching others about this musical Pocahontas County family.
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What's the nickname of the West Virginia University marching band?
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Keyser native Jack Rollins did NOT co-write which of these songs?
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"Salt Pork, West Virginia" tells the story of musician Louis Jordan's arrest in this city.
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This country singer, who grew up in Hinton, had hits such as “Then and Only Then,” "Nobody but a Fool (Would Love You)," “The Hurtin’s All Over,” “Cincinnati, Ohio,” “and Just One Time."
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Which one of the following songs did Boone County native Billy Edd Wheeler NOT write or cowrite?
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This banjo player was the first woman to receive the Vandalia Award, West Virginia's highest folklife honor.
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"The Wreck on the C&O" is a folk song about a deadly train wreck near which city?
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What Wheeling native has won Grammy Awards for best folk (2006) and bluegrass (2014) albums?
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This musician went by the nickname "Piano Man."
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