Al Hopkins
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Al Hopkins
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Albert Green Hopkins was an American musician, a pioneer of what later came to be called country music; in 1925 he originated the earlier designation of this music as "hillbilly music", though not without qualms about its pejorative connotation. Hopkins played piano, an unusual instrument for Appalachian music. The members of the band that brought him to fame came variously from Hopkins' own Watauga County, North Carolina, and from Grayson and Carroll Counties in Virginia. Although the group for
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