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What country music star began his career in the C-Notes band?
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Curly Ray Cline played fiddle with this bluegrass band.
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West Virginia Hall of Fame member Butch Miles was a master of what instrument?
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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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Lincoln County's Elaine Purkey wrote this labor anthem.
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This Summers County songwriter recorded one of the earliest known songs about the Monongah Mine Disaster.
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Nat Reese was known for his unique stylings of what kind of music?
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This country musician ran a store opposite Wheeling's Capitol Theatre, where he performed regularly.
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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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Logan County native Jim Foglesong was known primarily as a producer of what type of music?
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