And don't forget good ole Tennessee Ernie Ford who grew up in Bristol, a few years later I guess. G. Lee Hearl wrote: > 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... > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #9 As of 2/27/1999 we have 485 members. Traffic can get heavy so check your > mailbox often. We should regulate traffic so it don't get out of hand. > There is an average of ten members coming and going each week. > -sysop