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Artists (in order of appearance):

• Charlie Poole (Randolph County), “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down Blues”
• Blind Boy Fuller (Wadesboro), “Truckin’ My Blues Away”
• Doc Watson (Deep Gap), “Shady Grove”
• Carolina Chocolate Drops (Durham), “Cornbread and Butterbeans”
• Andy Griffith (Mount Airy), “Sourwood Mountain”
• Earl Scruggs of Flatt & Scruggs (Shelby), “Earl’s Breakdown”
• Joe Thompson (Orange County), “I Shall Not Be Moved”
• The Avett Brothers (Concord), “Ain’t No Man”
• Shirley Caesar (Durham), “Tear Your Kingdom Down”
• John D. Loudermilk (Durham), “Tobacco Road”
• Nina Simone (Tryon), “Feeling Good”
• Fantasia (High Point), “Sleeping with the One I Love”
• Thelonious Monk (Rocky Mount), “Monk’s Dream – Take 8”
• John Coltrane (Hamlet), “Giant Steps”
• Max Roach (Pasquotank County), “Dr. Free-Zee”
• Roberta Flack (Black Mountain), “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”
• Bland Simpson (Chapel Hill/Beaufort), “Home on the River”
• Rhiannon Giddens (Greensboro), “We Could Fly”
• James Taylor (Chapel Hill), “Carolina in My Mind”
• Emmylou Harris (Cherry Point), “Boulder to Birmingham”
• The Charlie Daniels Band (Wilmington), “Carolina (I Remember You)”
• Ronnie Milsap (Robbinsville), “Smoky Mountain Rain”
• Randy Travis (Marshville), “On the Other Hand”
• Eric Church (Granite Falls), “Carolina”
• Anthony Hamilton (Charlotte), “What I’m Feelin’”
• The “5” Royales (Winston-Salem), “Think”
• Little Eva (Belhaven), “The Loco-Motion”
• Inez & Charlie Foxx (Greensboro), “Mockingbird”
• Ben E. King (Henderson), “Stand by Me”
• Ruby Johnson (Elizabeth City), “Come to Me My Darling”
• Don Gibson (Shelby), “Sea of Heartbreak”
• Link Wray & His Wray Men (Dunn), “Rumble”
• Southern Culture on the Skids (Chapel Hill), “Camel Walk”
• Betty Davis (Durham), “They Say I’m Different”
• George Clinton (Kannapolis), “Atomic Dog”
• Rissi Palmer (Durham), “Little Black Girl, Little Black Boy”
• Rapsody (Snow Hill), “Laila’s Wisdom”
• Tori Amos (Newton), “Cornflake Girl”
• Ben Folds Five (Winston-Salem), “Brick”
• Kamara Thomas & The Ghost Gamblers (Durham), “That’s No Way to Treat Your Sweet Guitar”
• Tift Merritt (Raleigh), “Traveling Alone”
• Laurelyn Dossett (Greensboro), “Leaving Eden”
• Algia Mae Hinton (Johnston County), “Going Down This Road”
• Elizabeth Cotten (Carrboro), “I’m Going Away”
• Etta Baker (Morganton), “Carolina Breakdown”