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From Hollow to Highway: The Deep Roots of Appalachian Folk Music in Modern Americana

Long before electric guitars hummed through stadium speakers and streaming algorithms curated personalized playlists, music was being made on remote mountain porches, in candlelit cabins, and around crackling fires in the hollows of the Appalachian Mountains. These ancient melodies — carried across the Atlantic by Scots-Irish immigrants, blended with African rhythms, and shaped by generations