Roy Hall and His Blue Ridge Entertainers
Band
Old-Time (Traditional)
Roy Hall (1907–1943) led the Blue Ridge Entertainers, the most popular string band in southwest Virginia at the turn of the 1940s, broadcasting daily from Roanoke.
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- First recorded “Don’t Let Your Sweet Love Die” (1941) and “Come Back Little Pal”; Tommy Magness fiddled in the band before joining Bill Monroe.
- Hall died in a car accident in 1943 at thirty-six.
