Here he is with the Smoky Mountain Boys performing "Wabash Cannonball."

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Two firefighters died near Los Angeles on Sunday when their vehicle went off a smoky mountain road.

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In one corner is the Smoky Mountain String Band three guys in blue dungarees with a banjo, fiddle and upright bass.

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Reporting from Tennessee some years ago, Bagehot was left slack-jawed on entering Knoxville's titchy yet lavish airport, which boasts a giant indoor replica of a Smoky Mountain stream, complete with real trees, 18, 000 gallons of water, boulders and a wooden sculpture of a bear.

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