The Rise and Ruin of The Stonemans – The Royal Family Nashville Erased25

History calls Ernest 'Pop' Stoneman a musical pioneer. But to his 23 children, he was a monster. He didn't raise his children; he raised them as laborers. In that dilapidated house, fatherhood was nonexistent, only labor quotas. The Stoneman children grew up with crooked legs, missing teeth, and souls crushed by beatings. He drained the lifeblood of his own people for fame, turning his children into worn-out money-making machines. This is the autopsy of the family that built country music with their blood, and the brutal price they paid for the applause. #TheStonemans #PopStoneman #RoniStoneman #CountryMusicHistory #Bluegrass #MusicTragedy #FamilySecrets #ChildExploitation #HeeHaw #Biography