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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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West Virginia Music Hall of Fame composer and arranger Robert Drasnin was born in this city.
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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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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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This Summers County songwriter recorded one of the earliest known songs about the Monongah Mine Disaster.
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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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This banjo player was the first woman to receive the Vandalia Award, West Virginia's highest folklife honor.
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Which one of the following songs was NOT a hit for Raleigh County native Bill Withers?
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This musician went by the nickname "Piano Man."
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