Pressing on: The Roni Stoneman Story (Music in American Life) - Softcover

Buch 14 von 85: Music in American Life

Stoneman, Roni; Wright, Ellen

 
9780252074349: Pressing on: The Roni Stoneman Story (Music in American Life)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252074343 ISBN 13: 9780252074349
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2007

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Roni Stoneman was the youngest daughter of the pioneering country music family and a woman who overcame poverty and abusive husbands to claim the title of "The First Lady of Banjo," a fixture on the Nashville scene, and, as Hee Haw's Ironing Board Lady, a comedienne beloved by millions.

Drawn from more than seventy-five hours of recorded interviews, Pressing On reveals Roni's gifts as a master storyteller. With characteristic spunk and candor, she describes her "pooristic" ("way beyond 'poverty-stricken'") Appalachian childhood, and how her brother Scott taught her to play the challenging and innovative three-finger banjo picking style developed by Earl Scruggs. She also warmly recounts Hee Haw-era adventures with Minnie Pearl, Roy Clark, and Buck Owens; her encounters as a musician with country greats like Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, June Carter, and Patsy Cline; as well as her personal struggles with shiftless and violent husbands, her relationships with her children, and her musical life after Hee Haw.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roni Stoneman was a member of the legendary Stoneman Family and a longtime cast member of Hee Haw. She remains a performing banjo player, entertainer, and comedienne. Ellen Wright is Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the writing program at Northwestern University.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252074343
ISBN 13 
9780252074349
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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