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Curly Ray Cline played fiddle with this bluegrass band.
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This Wheeling native played bass on Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys album.
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This Raleigh County native's biggest hit was "May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose."
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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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Bluefield's Maceo Pinkard co-wrote this classic song.
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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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This Braxton County fiddler was the first West Virginian to be named a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow.
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This Tucker County native was known as "America's Polka King?"
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Which country singer from Bluefield had a hit with "Lovin' On Back Streets" in the 1970s?
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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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