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Who was the first native West Virginian elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame?
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This singer was known as "Charleston's First Lady of Jazz."
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Curly Ray Cline played fiddle with this bluegrass band.
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Folklorist Pat Gainer founded this festival in 1950.
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In 1927, this Logan Countian blues guitarist made one of the earliest known recordings of "John Henry."
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This Webster County musician won the fiddle contest at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
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"Salt Pork, West Virginia" tells the story of musician Louis Jordan's arrest in this city.
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The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra is headquartered in this city.
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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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Ida L. Reed of Barbour County was best known for writing this style of music.
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