Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper
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The traditional sounds of the southern Appalachian mountains were echoed in the music of Wilma Lee And Stoney Cooper. In 1950, the Coopers and their band, the Clinch Mountain Clan, were named "the most authentic mountain singing group in the United States" by the music library of Harvard University.
Wilma Lee And Stoney Cooper were born to sing traditional country music. Raised on a farm in Clinch County, West Virginia, Stoney learned to play mountain music and Elizabethan ballads on the fiddle as a child. At the age of twelve, he taught himself to play guitar and joined a traditional country band, the Green Valley Boys. Wilma Lee grew up singing with a family band, the Leary Family, that was one of the top-ranked Southern gospel groups. Her debut public performance came at the age of five. In 1938, she sang with the Leary Family at a national folk festival sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Wilma Lee And Stoney Cooper were born to sing traditional country music. Raised on a farm in Clinch County, West Virginia, Stoney learned to play mountain music and Elizabethan ballads on the fiddle as a child. At the age of twelve, he taught himself to play guitar and joined a traditional country band, the Green Valley Boys. Wilma Lee grew up singing with a family band, the Leary Family, that was one of the top-ranked Southern gospel groups. Her debut public performance came at the age of five. In 1938, she sang with the Leary Family at a national folk festival sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt.
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