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“Curly” Ray Cline (1923–1997)

Music: Bluegrass Section 3 of 8

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This Baisden (Logan County) native was one of the state’s best fiddlers, playing music from the late 1930s until he retired in 1993. Cline played with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers until 1966 and later joined Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Mountain Boys. He also recorded 13 fiddle albums, many of them for Rebel Records.