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Country-and-western musician Billy Cox was born near Charleston on August 4, 1897. He started his career in 1928, singing and playing guitar and harmonica…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsMusician Rex Parker died at Princeton in Mercer County on June 2, 1999.The Fayette County native was the patriarch of the Parker Family, a popular musical…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn March 5, 1963, country music star Hawkshaw Hawkins was killed in a plane crash in Tennessee. Born in Huntington in 1921, Hawkins got his start in music…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsMusician Red Sovine died in Nashville following a car crash on April 4, 1980. He was 61.Born Woodrow Wilson Sovine in Charleston, he was influenced by…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn September 15, 1927, Charleston’s WOBU radio station went on the air with 50 watts of power at eleven-hundred twenty kilohertz. A year later, it moved…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHe’s been beaten and berated for doing his job, but despite the dangers, Bob Aaron says he still loves being a T.V. reporter.Those dangers made…
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