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Pressing on : the Roni Stoneman story / Roni Stoneman ; as told to Ellen Wright.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML419.S797 A3 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stoneman, Roni.
- Series:
- Music in American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stoneman, Roni.
- Banjoists--United States--Biography.
- Banjoists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 248 pages, 24 unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- This volume of the Music in American Life series recounts the story of Roni Stoneman, the youngest daughter of a pioneering country music family who, in spite of poverty and abusive husbands, eventually became "The First Lady of Banjo," a fixture on the Nashville scene, and "Hee Haws" Ironing Board Lady.
- Contents:
- Family
- A classy person : Aunt Jack
- My childhood
- Music
- Learning the banjo
- Education
- Sex education
- First love
- My brothers and sisters
- The performing Stonemans
- First marriage
- The Stoneman Family Band comes together
- Opry
- My first love affair : Glen Roquevort/Tony Lake
- Out West
- Nashville
- George
- Scotty
- Hee Haw
- George after Hee Haw
- The kids
- The real thing
- My bronze uterus
- On the road
- Husbands 3, 4, and 5
- Losing Hee Haw
- My religion
- Now.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252031915
- 0252031911
- 9780252074349
- 0252074343
- OCLC:
- 71427207
- Online:
- Publisher description
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