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Which TV show did this Moundsville native NOT write the theme song for?
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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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This musician won the banjo contest at the West Virginia State Folk Festival at age 67 in 1975.
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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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"The Wreck on the C&O" is a folk song about a deadly train wreck near which city?
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This Tucker County native was known as "America's Polka King?"
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Who had a hit with the 1947 country song "Beyond the Sunset?"
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This native of Gary is known as the nation's dean of Black sacred music.
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This West Virginia Music Hall of Fame member started a degree program in bluegrass at Glenville State.
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What gospel group was founded in the West Virginia coalfields by Claude Jeter
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