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Curly Ray Cline played fiddle with this bluegrass band.
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The blind musician Ed Haley was best known for playing what instrument?
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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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These brothers' Clay County festival became a pattern for the Vandalia Gathering and other old-time music festivals.
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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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This West Virginia Music Hall of Fame pianist was originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York.
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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 Tucker County native was known as "America's Polka King?"
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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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