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90 relations: Acuff-Rose Music, American Record Corporation, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Bang Bang Lulu, Baptists, Bashful Brother Oswald, Billboard charts, Billboard Hot 100, Cajuns, Carson–Newman University, Central High School (Knoxville, Tennessee), Charlie Louvin, Clarence Ashley, Columbia Records, Conqueror Records, Country music, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, County Records, Democratic Party (United States), Dobro, Dorsey Dixon, Dunbar Cave State Park, E. H. Crump, Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Fiddlin' John Carson, Fountain City, Knoxville, Fred Rose (songwriter), George D. Hay, Gid Tanner, Gordon Browning, Gospel music, Grand Ole Opry, Great Smoky Mountains, Gretna, Louisiana, Hank Williams, Harmonica, Harry Choates, Heart failure, History of the New York Giants (baseball), Hollywood, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hot Country Songs, I Saw the Light (Hank Williams song), Jew's harp, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Knoxville, Tennessee, List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts, Lloyd Corrigan, Maynardville, Tennessee, ..., Medicine show, Memphis, Tennessee, Mental breakdown, Nashville, Tennessee, Night Train to Memphis, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, O, My Darling Clementine, Okeh Records, Opryland USA, Patti Page, Pee Wee King, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Prentice Cooper, Republican Party (United States), Richard Nixon, Roy Orbison, Ryman Auditorium, San Francisco Giants, Singer-songwriter, Singing cowboy, Slide guitar, Sparta, Tennessee, String band, Tennessee Smokies, Tennessee Waltz, The Everly Brothers, The Great Speckled Bird (song), The House of the Rising Sun, Uncle Dave Macon, Union County, Tennessee, United States, Wabash Cannonball, WATE-TV, Will the Circle be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album), William Frawley, WNOX, Wreck on the Highway (1938 song), Yo-yo, You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven, 2010 Tennessee floods. Expand index (40 more) »
Acuff-Rose Music
Acuff-Rose Music was an American music publishing firm formed in 1942 by Roy Acuff and Fred Rose in Nashville, Tennessee.
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American Record Corporation
American Record Corporation (ARC), also referred to as American Record Company, American Recording Corporation, or (erroneously) as ARC Records, was an American record company.
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American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly.
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Bang Bang Lulu
"Bang Bang Lulu" is a traditional American song with many variations.
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Baptists
Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).
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Bashful Brother Oswald
Beecher Ray Kirby (December 26, 1911–October 17, 2002), better known as Bashful Brother Oswald, was an American country musician who popularized the use of the resonator guitar and Dobro.
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Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Cajuns
The Cajuns (Louisiana les Cadiens), also known as Acadians (Louisiana les Acadiens) are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and in The Maritimes as well as Québec consisting in part of the descendants of the original Acadian exiles—French-speakers from Acadia (L'Acadie) in what are now the Maritimes of Eastern Canada.
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Carson–Newman University
Carson–Newman University is a Christian liberal arts university in Jefferson City, Tennessee, United States.
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Central High School (Knoxville, Tennessee)
Central High School is a public high school located at 5321 Jacksboro Pike in the Fountain City neighborhood of Knoxville, Tennessee, operated by the Knox County school system.
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Charlie Louvin
Charles Elzer Loudermilk (July 7, 1927 – January 26, 2011), known professionally as Charlie Louvin, was an American country music singer and songwriter.
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Clarence Ashley
Clarence "Tom" Ashley (September 29, 1895 – June 2, 1967) was an American musician and singer, who played the clawhammer banjo and the guitar.
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Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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Conqueror Records
Conqueror Records was a United States-based record label, active from 1928 through 1942.
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Country music
Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the world's largest museums and research centers dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American vernacular music.
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County Records
County Records was a Virginia-based independent American record label founded by David Freeman in 1963.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
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Dobro
Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitar, currently owned by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
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Dorsey Dixon
Dorsey Murdock Dixon (October 14, 1897, Darlington, South Carolina – April 18, 1968, Plant City, Florida) was an American old-time and country music songwriter and musician.
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Dunbar Cave State Park
Dunbar Cave State Park is a 110 acre (450,000 m²) park in Clarksville, Tennessee, situated around Dunbar Cave.
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E. H. Crump
Edward Hull "Boss" Crump (October 2, 1874 – October 16, 1954) was an American politician from Memphis, Tennessee.
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Eddy Arnold
Richard Edward "Eddy" Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country music singer who performed for six decades.
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Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music.
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Fiddlin' John Carson
Fiddlin' John Carson (March 23, 1868 – December 11, 1949) was an American old-time fiddler and singer who recorded what is widely considered to be the first country music song featuring vocals and lyrics.
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Fountain City, Knoxville
Fountain City is a neighborhood in northern Knoxville, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.
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Fred Rose (songwriter)
Fred Rose (August 24, 1897 or 1898 – December 1, 1954) was an American musician, Hall of Fame songwriter, and music publishing executive.
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George D. Hay
George Dewey Hay (November 9, 1895 – May 8, 1968) was an American radio personality, announcer and newspaper reporter.
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Gid Tanner
James Gideon "Gid" Tanner (June 6, 1885 – May 13, 1960) was an American old-time fiddler and one of the earliest stars of what would come to be known as country music.
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Gordon Browning
Gordon Weaver Browning (November 22, 1889May 23, 1976) was an American politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1937 to 1939, and again from 1949 to 1953.
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.
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Grand Ole Opry
The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.
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Great Smoky Mountains
The Great Smoky Mountains are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern United States.
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Gretna, Louisiana
Gretna is the second-largest city and parish seat of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Hank Williams
Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter.
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Harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.
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Harry Choates
Harry Henry Choates (December 26, 1922 - July 17, 1951) was an American Cajun music fiddler known as Fiddle King of Cajun Swing.
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Heart failure
Heart failure (HF), often referred to as congestive heart failure (CHF), is when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs.
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History of the New York Giants (baseball)
The San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball originated in New York City as the New York Gothams in 1883 and were known as the New York Giants from 1885 until the team relocated to San Francisco after the season.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
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Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.
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I Saw the Light (Hank Williams song)
"I Saw the Light" is a country gospel song written by Hank Williams.
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Jew's harp
The Jew's harp, also known as the jaw harp, mouth harp, Ozark harp or juice harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.
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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally called the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., named in 1964 as a memorial to President John F. Kennedy.
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Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Knox County.
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List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts
The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts.
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Lloyd Corrigan
Lloyd Corrigan (October 16, 1900 – November 5, 1969) was an American film and television actor, producer, screenwriter, and director who began working in films in the 1920s.
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Maynardville, Tennessee
Maynardville is a city that is the county seat of Union County, Tennessee, United States.
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Medicine show
Medicine shows were touring acts (traveling by truck, horse, or wagon teams) which peddled "miracle cure" patent medicines and other products between various entertainments.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Mental breakdown
A mental breakdown (also known as a nervous breakdown) is an acute, time-limited mental disorder that manifests primarily as severe stress-induced depression, anxiety, Paranoia, or dissociation in a previously functional individual, to the extent that they are no longer able to function on a day-to-day basis until the disorder is resolved.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.
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Night Train to Memphis
Night Train to Memphis is a 1946 American action film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan.
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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, an American country rock band, has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966.
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O, My Darling Clementine
O, My Darling Clementine is a 1943 American musical film directed by Frank McDonald and written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan.
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Okeh Records
Okeh Records is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918.
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Opryland USA
Opryland USA (later called Opryland Theme park and colloquially referred to simply as Opryland) was an amusement park in suburban Nashville, Tennessee.
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Patti Page
Clara Ann Fowler (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013), known by her stage name Patti Page, was an American singer of pop and country music.
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Pee Wee King
Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski (February 18, 1914 – March 7, 2000), known professionally as Pee Wee King, was an American country music songwriter and recording artist best known for co-writing "Tennessee Waltz".
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Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Pigeon Forge is a mountain resort city in Sevier County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.
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Prentice Cooper
William Prentice Cooper, Jr. (September 28, 1895May 18, 1969) was an American politician and diplomat who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1939 to 1945.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.
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Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark emotional ballads.
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Ryman Auditorium
Ryman Auditorium (formerly Grand Ole Opry House and Union Gospel Tabernacle) is a 2,362-seat live performance venue, located at 116 5th Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee and is best known as the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974.
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San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball franchise based in San Francisco, California.
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Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.
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Singing cowboy
A singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films, popularized by many of the B-movies of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Slide guitar
Slide guitar is a particular technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues-style music.
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Sparta, Tennessee
Sparta is a city and the county seat of White County, Tennessee, United States.
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String band
A string band is an old-time music or jazz ensemble made up mainly or solely of string instruments.
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Tennessee Smokies
The Tennessee Smokies are a Minor League Baseball team based in the Knoxville, Tennessee, metropolitan area.
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Tennessee Waltz
"Tennessee Waltz" is a popular country music song with lyrics by Redd Stewart and music by Pee Wee King written in 1946 and first released in January 1948.
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The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing.
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The Great Speckled Bird (song)
"The Great Speckled Bird" is a hymn from the Southern United States whose lyrics were written by the Reverend Guy Smith.
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The House of the Rising Sun
"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues".
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Uncle Dave Macon
Uncle Dave Macon (October 7, 1870 – March 22, 1952), born David Harrison Macon—also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an American old-time banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian.
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Union County, Tennessee
Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Wabash Cannonball
"The Wabash Cannon Ball" was a fast express train line on the Wabash, St.
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WATE-TV
WATE-TV is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.
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Will the Circle be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album)
Will the Circle be Unbroken is the seventh album by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, with collaboration from many famous bluegrass and country-western players, including Roy Acuff, "Mother" Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Merle Travis, Pete "Oswald" Kirby, Norman Blake, Jimmy Martin, and others.
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William Frawley
William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966) was an American stage entertainer and screen and television actor best known for playing landlord Fred Mertz in the famous American television sitcom I Love Lucy and Bub in the television comedy series My Three Sons.
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WNOX
WNOX (93.1 FM, "Classic Hits 93.1") is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits music format.
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Wreck on the Highway (1938 song)
"Wreck on the Highway" is a classic bluegrass song most commonly associated with Roy Acuff.
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Yo-yo
A yo-yo (also spelled yoyo) is a toy consisting of an axle connected to two disks, and a string looped around the axle.
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You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven
You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven is a song written by Gene Autry and recorded by The Delmore Brothers and Roy Acuff.
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2010 Tennessee floods
The May 2010 Tennessee floods were 1,000-year floods in Middle Tennessee, West Tennessee, south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi areas of the United States of America as the result of torrential rains on May 1 and 2, 2010.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Acuff
