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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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This Wheeling native played bass on Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys album.
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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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West Virginia Hall of Fame member Butch Miles was a master of what instrument?
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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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Bluefield's Maceo Pinkard co-wrote this classic song.
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"Salt Pork, West Virginia" tells the story of musician Louis Jordan's arrest in this city.
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On May 1, 1940, the city of Wheeling hosted a special day honoring this opera singer, who was born there.
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Giving its first concert in 1929, this is the longest-running orchestra in West Virginia.
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Which one of the following songs was NOT a hit for Raleigh County native Bill Withers?
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