Ernest Stoneman
Ernest V. " Pop " Stoneman ( born May 25, 1893 in Monorat, Virginia; † June 14, 1968 ) was an American Old-time musicians. Stoneman was one of the first rural musician who was immortalized with its traditional music on vinyl.
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Life
Childhood and youth
Born and raised in Carroll County, Virginia, Stoneman was raised by his father and three cousins. In the family, he learned the most traditional songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he should load the settings. As a young man married Stoneman and chatted with odd jobs. At the same time he joined friends and neighbors as a musician.
Career
After Stoneman had heard a panel of hillbilly musicians Henry Whitter, he bet with his friends that his records would still sound much better than Whitters. He traveled to New York City in 1924 and got Okeh Records immediately signed a contract as Old-time musicians were much in demand in the 1920s. The end of 1924 came out his second single The Sinking of the Titanic and was a big hit. The song was one of the most successful of the whole decade, and should be part of Stoneman's most famous pieces. In his early recordings accompanying himself me his autoharp and harmonica, and he later switched to guitar. To 1926 he founded with friends and neighbors String Band The Dixie Mountaineers and switched to Victor Records.
1927 Stoneman's career reached its peak. He had become a top artist Victor and led among other things, the famous Bristol sessions, in which the later Stars Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family were discovered. Stoneman continued to play a disk; to 1929, he recorded more than 200 pieces. When the world economic crisis broke over the globe, Stoneman lost his entire fortune. Together with his wife and nine children, he moved to Washington, DC, where he lived in poverty. With casual and performing as a musician, he tried unsuccessfully to improve its standard of living. Finally Stoneman took place after the economic crisis in an ammunition depot then again work.
In the late 1940s Stoneman began with his equally talented family as The Stoneman Family reappear. In 1956 he got his nickname " Pop " and appeared on the NBC game show The Big Surprise, where he won $ 10,000. After Stoneman had gone into retirement, he was a member of the bluegrass band of his children, who now called himself The Stone Mans. In 1965 she received a recording contract with MGM Records, where she released singles and albums. Together they moderated own TV show and acquired by the folk revival new celebrity. In 1967, Stoneman's health slowly began to deteriorate, despite which he continued to play a land and continued to perform during the spring of 1968.
Ernest Stoneman died on June 14, 1968 at the age of 75 years. He received the 2008 award posthumously the largest of country music; Stoneman was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.