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Which one of the following songs was supposedly inspired by Fairmont native Johnnie Johnson?
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This Wheeling native was one of the most highly regarded saxophonists of the jazz era.
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This singer was known as "Charleston's First Lady of Jazz."
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4
What Putnam County traditional musician was known as the "Banjo Man from Turkey Creek?"
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5
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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The only 52 known recordings by fiddler Edden Hammons were made here.
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This person was NOT an inaugural inductee into the West Virginia Hall of Fame in 2007.
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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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Ida L. Reed of Barbour County was best known for writing this style of music.
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