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Artist
Ernest Stoneman
12+ albums
AllcountryOld-Timeyfolkamericana
about
Ernest Van "Pop" Stoneman (May 25, 1893 – June 14, 1968) ranked among the prominent recording artists of country music's first commercial decade. Born in a log cabin in Monarat (Iron Ridge), Carroll County, Virginia, near what would later become Galax, Stoneman was left motherless at age three and was raised by his father and three musically inclined cousins, who taught him the instrumental and vocal traditions of Blue Ridge mountain culture. He became a singer and songwriter, and proficient musician on the guitar, autoharp, harmonica, clawhammer banjo, and jaw harp. When he married Hattie Frost in November 1918, he entered another musically involved family. He and Hattie had 23 children, 13 of whom survived to adulthood: Eddie L. (deceased), I. Grace (deceased), John C.(deceased), Patsy I., J. William (Billy) (deceased), Gene A. (deceased), Dean C. (deceased), C. Scott (deceased), Donna L., O. James (deceased), Veronica L. (Roni), Van H. (deceased). Stoneman worked at a variety of jobs, in mines, mills, but mostly carpentry, and played music for his own enjoyment and that of his neighbors, but when he heard a Henry Whitter record in 1924, he determined to better it and changed his life as well. Stoneman went to New York in September 1924 and cut two songs for the Okeh Records label. The record was shelved and he had to return for another recording session in January 1925. Ralph Peer directed him through several sessions for Okeh and Victor, and he freelanced on other labe
top songs
albums
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People Take Warning 1: Man Vs. Machine
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Masters of Old-Time Country Autoharp
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People Take Warning 2: Man Vs. Nature
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People Take Warning 3: Man Vs. Man
Country Legend
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People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
Ernest Stoneman (Doxy Collection)
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People Take Warning [Disc 1] - Man Vs. Machine
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American Epic: The Collection
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The Return Of The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
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Masters Of Old-time Country Autoharp (Smithsonian Folkways)
Mountain Music Played On The Autoharp