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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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Old-time musician Dwight Diller spent years documenting and teaching others about this musical Pocahontas County family.
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"Walk the Way the Wind Blows" was the first major hit for this native West Virginian.
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Banjo player Sylvia O'Brien was the sister of this traditional musician.
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This person was NOT an inaugural inductee into the West Virginia Hall of Fame in 2007.
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What college did jazz performer and composer Don Redman attend?
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Keyser native Jack Rollins did NOT co-write which of these songs?
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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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"The Wreck on the C&O" is a folk song about a deadly train wreck near which city?
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This Mercer County native was the first bluegrass musician to appear on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine.
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