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Ray Davis, a radio broadcaster who was the host of bluegrass music shows for more than 60 years and played a key role in making the Mid-Atlantic a leading center of traditional Appalachian folk music, died Dec. 3 at a hospital in Frederick, Md.

He was 81.

The cause was leukemia, said his wife, Nona Davis.

As a boy growing up on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Mr. Davis had aspirations of being a broadcaster and practiced speaking into the resonant water barrels on his family’s chicken farm.

After landing his first job in radio at 15, he soon began to champion the music that later became known as bluegrass.

He spent more than 35 years at WBMD-AM in Baltimore, broadcasting for much of that time from a used-car lot.

His sponsor, the owner of Johnny’s Used Cars, was such a dedicated fan of country music that he built Mr. Davis a studio next to the Oldsmobiles and Chevys.

“Yes, indeed, folks,” Mr.