The tune "I Know I'm Home" kicks off a new WestVirginiaVille series showcasing original "Songs of West Virginia." The tune was co-written by Al Smith and Ron Sowell, the leader of the "Mountain Stage" band. Sowell was a wandering minstrel who landed here and found some harmony. And stayed for good.
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EDITOR’S NOTEPAD: Mitch Gets Moved & WV Can’t Wait Begins a Movement
By Jove, West Virginia voters did indeed "Move Mitch, Get Out the Way." Meanwhile, the WV Can't Wait campaign of Stephen Smith came up short, but the start of its "movement" did not.
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The West Virginia Musician Who Helped Draw Bob Dylan to Nashville
West Virginia may not immediately come to mind when you think of Bob Dylan's influential 1965 record "Highway 61 Revisited," which one writer says that in an important sense "started" the 1960s. Think again.
