Appalachia's music touches the nation. The banjo and the mandolin, the fiddle and the dulcimer - everyone knows the sound of the hills. But not all of the music is country. Aretha Franklin got her start in the southern Appalachian town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Elvis was born in Appalachian Mississippi.
Appalachian culture is a rich and varied tapestry of interlaced colors and textures.
But it is a whole.