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| | Blue Ridge Country: Bristol, The Real Home of Country Music? Jimmie Rodgers & Carter Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Choosing Bristol -- a thriving railroad town situated on the Tennessee-Virginia line -- happened as the result of a tip from one of Peer's established recording artists, Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman, a former carpenter who grew up in a log cabin in the Virginia mountains near Galax, about 65 miles from Bristol. |
 | | Leaving Bristol for California, soon after a stint in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Ford's radio career on the CBS and ABC radio networks would lead to a singing career spanning country, rockabilly, gospel and pop records. |
 | | Back in Bristol, where Loggins' mother Pauline still resides, the city's version of Mount Rushmore is a billboard-size wall mural -- artist Tim White's interpretation of the 1927 recording sessions on the side of the Lark Amusements building on State Street. |
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