Patsy Stoneman Murphy, a musician and the daughter of country music pioneer Ernest V. “Pop” Stoneman, died Thursday morning at her home in Manchester, Tenn. She was 90 years old.

Born in 1938 to Ernest V. "Pop" and Hattie Stoneman, Roni was the second-youngest of her father's 23 children. She played banjo in the Stoneman family band, one of country music's earliest family ...

to Hattie Stoneman and pioneering bluegrass musician Ernest V. “Pop” Stoneman, known for his 1925 recording of “The Sinking of the Titanic.” According to the Country Music Hall of Fame and ...

Following in the footsteps of their mother and father, 1920s-era pioneering country music recording pioneers Ernest V. “Pop” and Hattie Stoneman, the Washington, D.C.-born Jimmy Stoneman and ...

Tribe. A decade earlier, Ms. Stoneman had become the regular banjo player for the Stonemans, a family band led by her father, Ernest V. “Pop” Stoneman, a first-generation country star who ...

Roni Stoneman, the “first lady of the banjo,” who picked her way into bluegrass and country music history as a member of the Stoneman Family band and found wider fame as an irascible performer ...

The Okeh Record sessions that took place in Asheville nearly 100 years ago. The New York-based label, in a bid to discover lesser-known Southern musicians, took trips to various locations where ...

This one is crying out for a Pete Johnson comment. > Ernest V. Stoneman's "Unsung Father of Country Music, 1925-1934" co-produced by Christopher C. King of Bath County, Virginia and Hank Sapoznik ...

Walden S. Fabry Collection, courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Roni Stoneman, a country musician who was known as “first lady of the banjo,” and was seen by millions as a ...