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West Virginia Music

With obvious roots in country and old-time music, West Virginia gives us a lot of music based in reality and hard times but also in what it takes to overcome those obstacles. Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of music which draws from the coal culture as well. And we all know that country roads always take us home to West Virginia.

Take Me Home Country Roads - John Denver

West Virginia My Home - Hazel Dickens

Girl From West Virginia - Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

Coal Miner's Hands - Blackwater Outlaws

The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia - Emmylou Harris

West Virginia Ground - Dwight McCall

Dallas - Reba McEntire

Covered in Coal - Blackwater Outlaws

West Virginia Underground -Taylor Made

Stone Coal West Virginia - Dave Evans

Leaving West Virginia - Chad Slagle

West Virginia in My Rearview - No One You Know

West Virginia Man - David Alan Coe

Salt Pork West Virginia - Louis Jordan

West Virginia Friend -Holly Near

Small Town - Nappy Roots

You Remind Me of West Virginia - Wyatt Turner

American Saturday Night - Brad Paisley

Coal Tattoo - Kathy Mattea

Black Eyed Joe's - Little Jimmy Dickens

Travelling the Highway Home - Molly O'Day

Down on the Banks of the Old Ohio - Lilly Brothers

Poor Ellen Smith - Molly 'Day

Woman Behind the Man Behind the Wheel - Red Sovine

Lean On Me - Bill Withers (really!)

Cumberland Gap - Frank Hutchison

Fanny Mae - Blind Joe Hill

This Ole House - Wilma Lee Cooper

Orange Blossom Special - Charlie McCoy

Come Home to West Virginia - Landau Eugene Murphy

Carrying Your Love With Me - Jeff Stevens

The Letter - Asleep at the Wheel

Sunny Side of the Mountain - Hawkshaw Hawkins

In The Short Rows Now - Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers

All Dressed Up - Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers

(I saw these guys do an amazing show at the Mountaineer Opry in Milton)

You Can Never Go Home Again - Man About a Horse

A Few Hundred Miles - Man About a Horse

(These guys did an amazing show at the Purple Fiddle in Thomas)

John Henry - Joe Henry

Winter Wheat - John K. Samson

Fellow Traveler - John K. Samson

Sentimental Journey - Nellie McKay

(These artists were on Mountain Stage in Charleston when I saw them!)