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This singer and pianist earned the title "West Virginia's First Lady of Gospel Music."
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Cozy Records, one of the most successful companies of its kind in West Virginia, was located in this town.
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West Virginia Music Hall of Fame composer and arranger Robert Drasnin was born in this city.
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"John Hardy" is a famous folk song about a hanging in what coalfield city.
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Lincoln County's Elaine Purkey wrote this labor anthem.
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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 Tucker County native was known as "America's Polka King?"
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What country music singer was born Lois LaVerne Williamson?
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This fiddler from Elizabeth won the 1998 Vandalia Award.
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What Wheeling native has won Grammy Awards for best folk (2006) and bluegrass (2014) albums?
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