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Stoneman - One of the founders of the Deathglam style. The group started their work in 2005. Since these days they're getting bigger and better very rapidly. In 2006 the boys' debut album "sex. drugs .murder" was released worldwide and gave quite an impact to the industrial gothic and rock scene. ( E.I. magazine USA). They played more 150 shows in over 30 countries in 2006, supporting big acts like Within Temptation, U.K Subs , the Deathstars and many others. Spring 2007 a first headliner tour through 19 cities followed and on the 14tth September 07 their second album "How...

The legacy family group started by Appalachia, VA bluegrass legend Ernest "Pops" Stoneman. Ernest V. Stoneman's earliest Edison recordings happened in 1924, and predate those by both The Carter Family or the singing brakeman, Jimmie Rodgers. In the book, "The Stonemans", author Ivan M. Tribe, tells of the family, their hardships, and how Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman recorded the reputed first million selling country music song "The Sinking of the Titanic" for Okeh. After recording over 200 songs, like many frustrated, and financially unrewarded "old timey" depression-era musicians, Ernest retired from performing to find work in a factory to support...

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...

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 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 jew's harp. When he married Hattie Frost in November 1918, he entered another musically involved...