Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper

The traditional sounds of the southern Appalachian mountains were echoed in the music of Wilma Lee & 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 & Stoney Cooper were born to sing traditional country music. Raised on a farm in Clinch County, WV, Stoney learned to play mountain music and Elizabethan ballads on the fiddle as a child. At the age of 12, he taught himself to play guitar and joined a traditional country ...