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Pressing on : The Roni Stoneman Story

by Ellen Wright , Roni Stoneman

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Format Paperback / Softback
Book Series Music in American Life
ISBN-10 0252074343
ISBN-13 9780252074349
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Mar 20th, 2007
Print length 304 Pages
Weight 513 grams
Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification: BluegrassCountry and WesternFolk & traditional musicTraditional and folk musicString instrumentsAutobiography: arts & entertainmentAutobiography: arts and entertainment
Ksh 3,100.00
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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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