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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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Cozy Records, one of the most successful companies of its kind in West Virginia, was located in this town.
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What Huntington native died in the same plane crash that killed country music legend Patsy Cline?
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In the 1930s and 1940s, this company's employees starred in their own national radio variety program.
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These brothers' Clay County festival became a pattern for the Vandalia Gathering and other old-time music festivals.
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Lincoln County's Elaine Purkey wrote this labor anthem.
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Monroe County's Henry Reed was most closely associated with this instrument.
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What popular country music radio program aired for 10 years on Fairmont's WMMN?
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This Huntington musician was one of the stars of the Harlem Renaissance, performing with the likes of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Paul Robeson, and Marian Anderson.
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