Culture
The folk song "Oh Shenandoah" has been recorded by a number of artists including Tennessee Ernie Ford, the Statler Brothers, jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and Bruce Springsteen. The song may or may not refer to the Shenandoah River or Valley.
The Shenandoah River figures prominently in John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads," which associates the river with the state of West Virginia. Only the last 20 miles (32 km) of the river are in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, with the vast majority of the river and its forks and tributaries flowing through Virginia.
The original song 'Shenandoah River' appears on the 2011 album 'Middle of Everywhere' by Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three.
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