Bristol, TN-Va has been designated by Congress as the "Birthplace of Country Music". The Carter Family of Scott County, Va., Jimmy Rogers, The Stoneman Family of Fries, Va. and many others recorded in a make-shift studio in Bristol in 1927. During the past few days a country music museum opened in the Bristol Mall.. One of my "Cousins", Kelley Harrell, recorded the "Wreck of Ole' 97" a few years before the Bristol recording sessions. He was from Fries, Va... G. Lee Hearl Abingdon, Va... Carter and Ralph Stanley, Flatt and Scruggs, Mac Wiseman, Charlie Monroe and others performed on radio in Bristol during the forties and fifties.. G. Lee Hearl Abingdon, Va...