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Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story
Roni Stoneman
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Description for Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story
Paperback. 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. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: AVGH; AVRL; BGFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
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.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Music in American Life
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252074349
SKU
V9780252074349
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About Roni Stoneman
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.
Reviews for Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story
"[A] moving and frequently comical memoir."
The Tennessean "Co-author Ellen Wright has skillfully assembled and corroborated Stoneman's narratives. . . . Stoneman's story is crammed with her personality, full of funny anecdotes about her family and other performers with whom she worked, all wrapped in her hillborn cussedness."
No Depression "It is a gripping and well-told tale, and Stoneman's can-do spirit, which ... Read more
The Tennessean "Co-author Ellen Wright has skillfully assembled and corroborated Stoneman's narratives. . . . Stoneman's story is crammed with her personality, full of funny anecdotes about her family and other performers with whom she worked, all wrapped in her hillborn cussedness."
No Depression "It is a gripping and well-told tale, and Stoneman's can-do spirit, which ... Read more