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Byrd was an avid fiddle player for most of his life, starting in his teens when he played in various square dance bands. Once he entered politics, he used his fiddling skills to attract attention and win votes. In 1978 when Byrd was Majority Leader, he recorded an album called U.S. Senator Robert Byrd: Mountain Fiddler (County, 1978). Byrd was accompanied by Country Gentlemen Doyle Lawson, James Bailey, and Spider Gilliam. Most of the LP consists of old-timey mountain music. Byrd covers "Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die," a Zeke Manners song, and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." He has performed at the Kennedy Center and on Hee Haw. He can no longer play the fiddle due to the symptoms of what aides say is a benign essential tremor that affects his hands.[citation needed]

Byrd is the subject of the song "Byrd From West Virginia" by the cosmic country band "I See Hawks"[33] The song addresses the challenges and hardships of his early life (not omitting that period when "the darkness of America blinded his sight"), and pays affectionate tribute to his public service career, particularly his opposition to the invasion of Iraq.

Senator Byrd appeared in the Civil War movie Gods and Generals in 2003 along with Senator George Allen of Virginia as Confederate officers.[35]