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This Clay County traditional musician made his own banjos using torque converter rings from 1956 Buick transmissions.
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This Charleston native received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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This fiddler was named a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow, one of the highest national awards in the arts.
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Nat Reese was known for his unique stylings of what kind of music?
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Keyser native Jack Rollins did NOT co-write which of these songs?
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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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What famous country music star was born in Bolt (Raleigh County)?
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Who broke Connie Smith's 50-year run for most consecutive weeks with a country song at number one on the charts?
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She was the first solo female country artist to have a number one hit for eight weeks straight, a record not broken for 50 years.
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This Boone County crooner was known for offbeat songs such as "Chicken Walk."
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