Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail – The Washington Post

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Perspective | Strumming along Virginia’s Crooked Road

Washington Post photographer Matt McClain documents Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail, which has helped to foster country and bluegrass music as well as other musical genres.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/07/03/strumming-along-virginias-crooked-road/

It’s Friday evening at the Floyd Country Store, one of the landmarks along Virginia’s Crooked Road, which anchors a century-old tradition of live music throughout the state. The Stanley Brothers played along the road, which winds through southwestern Virginia and is formally known as Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail. The Carter family, too, for generations.