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West Virginia Music Hall of Fame Inductees


2007
George Crumb
Billy Edd Wheeler
Hazel Dickens
Johnnie Johnson
Molly O’Day

Blind Alfred Reed
Leon “Chu” Berry
Clark Kessinger
Bill Withers

2008
Ann Baker
Robert Drasnin
Maceo Pinkard
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper
Frankie Yankovic
Red Sovine
The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover
Phyllis Curtin
Charlie McCoy

2009
Don Redman
Doc & Chickie Williams
Hawkshaw Hawkins
The Bailes Brothers
Larry Combs
Nat Reese
Frank DeVol

2011
Billy Cox
Connie Smith
Tommy Thompson
Kathy Mattea
“Diamond Teeth” Mary McClain
Butch Miles
Jack Rollins

2013
Ada “Bricktop” Smith
Wayne Moss
Eleanor Steber
Melvin & Ray Goins
Peter Marshall
Tim O’Brien
The Swan Silvertones

2015
Russ Hicks
John Ellison
Bob Thompson
Ed Haley
Buddy Starcher
Harry Vann Walls

2018
Hasil Adkins
Michael W. Smith
The Morris Brothers
Fred "Sonic" Smith
Frank Hutchison
Ann Magnuson

2020
The Hammons Family
Larry Groce
Mayf Nutter
Ethel Caffie-Austin
The Davis Twins

2023
Buddy Griffin
Parliament cofounders Fuzzy Haskins and Calvin Simon
The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
Barbara Nissman
Winston Walls


Source: West Virginia Music Hall of Fame