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data-file-width="281" data-file-height="355" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Birth name</span></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Dale Troy Cooper</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1918-10-16</span>)</span>October 16, 1918<br /><a href="/wiki/Harman,_West_Virginia" title="Harman, West Virginia">Harman, West Virginia</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">March 22, 1977<span style="display:none">(1977-03-22)</span> (aged 58)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">Country</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Singer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instrument(s)</th><td class="infobox-data note"><a href="/wiki/Fiddle" title="Fiddle">Fiddle</a>, guitar</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1947–1969</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hickory_Records" title="Hickory Records">Hickory</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formerly of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wilma_Lee_Cooper" title="Wilma Lee Cooper">Wilma Lee Cooper</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Dale Troy Cooper</b> (October 16, 1918 – March 22, 1977),<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinCountry_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinCountry-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> known professionally as <b>Stoney Cooper</b>, was an American <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country</a> star and member of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Ole_Opry" title="Grand Ole Opry">Grand Ole Opry</a>. He played the <a href="/wiki/Fiddle" title="Fiddle">fiddle</a> and the guitar. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stoney_Cooper&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cooper was the son of Kenny and Stella (Raines) Cooper of <a href="/wiki/Harman,_West_Virginia" title="Harman, West Virginia">Harman, West Virginia</a>, United States.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinCountry_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinCountry-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His family was among the first settlers of Randolph and Pendleton counties, and these roots in the Appalachian mountains had an impact upon his music. </p><p>While in high school, Cooper was a member of the Leary Family Singers.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinCountry_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinCountry-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1939, he married <a href="/wiki/Wilma_Lee" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilma Lee">Wilma Lee</a> Leary.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinCountry_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinCountry-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They became Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, one of the biggest country music acts of the 1940s through the 1960s. They had one daughter, Carol Lee Cooper.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinCountry_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinCountry-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1947, they were cast members of <i><a href="/wiki/WWVA_Jamboree" class="mw-redirect" title="WWVA Jamboree">WWVA Jamboree</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Wheeling,_West_Virginia" title="Wheeling, West Virginia">Wheeling, West Virginia</a> until 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinCountry_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinCountry-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their band was called The Clinch Mountain Clan. In 1948, Cooper signed a recording contract with Columbia with the help of <a href="/wiki/Fred_Rose_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fred Rose (musician)">Fred Rose</a> that lasted to 1955. In 1954, Cooper joined the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Ole_Opry" title="Grand Ole Opry">Grand Ole Opry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinCountry_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinCountry-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also recorded for <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rich-R-Tone_Records&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rich-R-Tone Records (page does not exist)">Rich-R-Tone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hickory_Records" title="Hickory Records">Hickory Records</a> and <a href="/wiki/Decca_Records" title="Decca Records">Decca</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stoney_Cooper&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1973, Stoney's health began to fail; he suffered a series of heart attacks and spent long periods in the hospital.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinCountry_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinCountry-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finally, he suffered a heart attack on February 4, 1977, from which he died in the intensive care unit of a Nashville hospital on March 22, 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinCountry_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinCountry-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stoney_Cooper&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singles_with_Wilma_Lee_Cooper">Singles with Wilma Lee Cooper</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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(1993). <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Popular_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="Encyclopedia of Popular Music">The Guinness Who's Who of Country Music</a></i> (First ed.). <a href="/wiki/Guinness_Publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="Guinness Publishing">Guinness Publishing</a>. pp. 94/5. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85112-726-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-85112-726-6"><bdi>0-85112-726-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Guinness+Who%27s+Who+of+Country+Music&rft.pages=94%2F5&rft.edition=First&rft.pub=Guinness+Publishing&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=0-85112-726-6&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStoney+Cooper" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stoney_Cooper&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Country Music Encyclopedia</i>, Melvin Shestack. 1974, KBO Publishers, Inc., <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0690004427" title="Special:BookSources/978-0690004427">978-0690004427</a></li> <li><i>Country Music, U.S.A.</i>, Bill C. Malone. 1985, University of Texas Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-292-72329-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-292-72329-0">978-0-292-72329-0</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stoney_Cooper&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p66398/biography">Stony Cooper at allmusic.com</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rurallibrarianwv.blogspot.com/2014/09/who-was-wilma-lee-and-stoney-cooper.html">Biography</a></li></ul> <div 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Pardi">Jon Pardi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolly_Parton" title="Dolly Parton">Dolly Parton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carly_Pearce" title="Carly Pearce">Carly Pearce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stu_Phillips_(country_singer)" title="Stu Phillips (country singer)">Stu Phillips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Pruett" title="Jeanne Pruett">Jeanne Pruett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rascal_Flatts" title="Rascal Flatts">Rascal Flatts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riders_in_the_Sky_(band)" title="Riders in the Sky (band)">Riders in the Sky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darius_Rucker" title="Darius Rucker">Darius Rucker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Schlitz" title="Don Schlitz">Don Schlitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeannie_Seely" title="Jeannie Seely">Jeannie Seely</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blake_Shelton" title="Blake Shelton">Blake Shelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ricky_Van_Shelton" title="Ricky Van Shelton">Ricky Van Shelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ricky_Skaggs" title="Ricky Skaggs">Ricky Skaggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connie_Smith" title="Connie Smith">Connie Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Snider_(musician)" title="Mike Snider (musician)">Mike Snider</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marty_Stuart" title="Marty Stuart">Marty Stuart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pam_Tillis" title="Pam Tillis">Pam Tillis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randy_Travis" title="Randy Travis">Randy Travis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travis_Tritt" title="Travis Tritt">Travis Tritt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josh_Turner" title="Josh Turner">Josh Turner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrie_Underwood" title="Carrie Underwood">Carrie Underwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Urban" title="Keith Urban">Keith Urban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhonda_Vincent" title="Rhonda Vincent">Rhonda Vincent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Wariner" title="Steve Wariner">Steve Wariner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Watson" title="Gene Watson">Gene Watson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Whites" title="The Whites">The Whites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Wills" title="Mark Wills">Mark Wills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lainey_Wilson" title="Lainey Wilson">Lainey Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trisha_Yearwood" title="Trisha Yearwood">Trisha Yearwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Young_(singer)" title="Chris Young (singer)">Chris Young</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #AF0700; color:white; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 black, inset -2px -2px 0 black;;width:1%">Former members</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Acuff" title="Roy Acuff">Roy Acuff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_%22Stringbean%22_Akeman" title="David "Stringbean" Akeman">David "Stringbean" Akeman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Anglin" title="Jack Anglin">Jack Anglin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddy_Arnold" title="Eddy Arnold">Eddy Arnold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Ashworth" title="Ernest Ashworth">Ernest Ashworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chet_Atkins" title="Chet Atkins">Chet Atkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DeFord_Bailey" title="DeFord Bailey">DeFord Bailey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bashful_Brother_Oswald" title="Bashful Brother Oswald">Bashful Brother Oswald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Bate" title="Humphrey Bate">Humphrey Bate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binkley_Brothers%27_Dixie_Clodhoppers" title="Binkley Brothers' Dixie Clodhoppers">Binkley Brothers' Dixie Clodhoppers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margie_Bowes" title="Margie Bowes">Margie Bowes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rod_Brasfield" title="Rod Brasfield">Rod Brasfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Ed_Brown" title="Jim Ed Brown">Jim Ed Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Browns" title="The Browns">The Browns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Butler_and_Pearl" title="Carl Butler and Pearl">Carl Butler and Pearl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archie_Campbell_(comedian)" title="Archie Campbell (comedian)">Archie Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Carlisle" title="Bill Carlisle">Bill Carlisle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martha_Carson" title="Martha Carson">Martha Carson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Carter_Sisters" title="The Carter Sisters">The Carter Sisters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maybelle_Carter" title="Maybelle Carter">Maybelle Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Cash" title="Johnny Cash">Johnny Cash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_Carter_Cash" title="June Carter Cash">June Carter Cash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Clark" title="Roy Clark">Roy Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeke_Clements" title="Zeke Clements">Zeke Clements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Cline" title="Patsy Cline">Patsy Cline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Clower" title="Jerry Clower">Jerry Clower</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Stoney Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilma_Lee_Cooper" title="Wilma Lee Cooper">Wilma Lee Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cowboy_Copas" title="Cowboy Copas">Cowboy Copas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Daniels" title="Charlie Daniels">Charlie Daniels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skeeter_Davis" title="Skeeter Davis">Skeeter Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Delmore_Brothers" title="The Delmore Brothers">The Delmore Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_DeZurik_Sisters" title="The DeZurik Sisters">The DeZurik Sisters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Jimmy_Dickens" title="Little Jimmy Dickens">Little Jimmy Dickens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Diffie" title="Joe Diffie">Joe Diffie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danny_Dill" title="Danny Dill">Danny Dill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Driftwood" title="Jimmy Driftwood">Jimmy Driftwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Drusky" title="Roy Drusky">Roy Drusky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Duke_of_Paducah" title="The Duke of Paducah">The Duke of Paducah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holly_Dunn" title="Holly Dunn">Holly Dunn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Everly_Brothers" title="The Everly Brothers">The Everly Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lester_Flatt" title="Lester Flatt">Lester Flatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Foley" title="Red Foley">Red Foley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curly_Fox" title="Curly Fox">Curly Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lefty_Frizzell" title="Lefty Frizzell">Lefty Frizzell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troy_Gentry" class="mw-redirect" title="Troy Gentry">Troy Gentry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Gibson" title="Don Gibson">Don Gibson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Grammer" title="Billy Grammer">Billy Grammer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Greene" title="Jack Greene">Jack Greene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Gully_Jumpers" title="The Gully Jumpers">The Gully Jumpers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theron_Hale" title="Theron Hale">Theron Hale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_T._Hall" title="Tom T. Hall">Tom T. Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Hamilton_IV" title="George Hamilton IV">George Hamilton IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sid_Harkreader" title="Sid Harkreader">Sid Harkreader</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawkshaw_Hawkins" title="Hawkshaw Hawkins">Hawkshaw Hawkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_D._Hay" title="George D. Hay">George D. Hay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoot_Hester" title="Hoot Hester">Hoot Hester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goldie_Hill" title="Goldie Hill">Goldie Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Houston_(singer)" title="David Houston (singer)">David Houston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Howard" title="Jan Howard">Jan Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferlin_Husky" title="Ferlin Husky">Ferlin Husky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stonewall Jackson (musician)">Stonewall Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_James" title="Sonny James">Sonny James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norma_Jean_(singer)" title="Norma Jean (singer)">Norma Jean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_%26_Jesse" title="Jim & Jesse">Jim & Jesse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnnie_%26_Jack" title="Johnnie & Jack">Johnnie & Jack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Jones" title="George Jones">George Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grandpa_Jones" title="Grandpa Jones">Grandpa Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Jordanaires" title="The Jordanaires">The Jordanaires</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Kershaw" title="Doug Kershaw">Doug Kershaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hal_Ketchum" title="Hal Ketchum">Hal Ketchum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bradley_Kincaid" title="Bradley Kincaid">Bradley Kincaid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pee_Wee_King" title="Pee Wee King">Pee Wee King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Locklin" title="Hank Locklin">Hank Locklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lonzo_and_Oscar" title="Lonzo and Oscar">Lonzo and Oscar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Lord" title="Bobby Lord">Bobby Lord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Louvin_Brothers" title="The Louvin Brothers">The Louvin Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Louvin" title="Charlie Louvin">Charlie Louvin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ira_Louvin" title="Ira Louvin">Ira Louvin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Luman" title="Bob Luman">Bob Luman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loretta_Lynn" title="Loretta Lynn">Loretta Lynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Dave_Macon" title="Uncle Dave Macon">Uncle Dave Macon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rose_Maddox" title="Rose Maddox">Rose Maddox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_McDaniel" title="Mel McDaniel">Mel McDaniel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_McReynolds" title="Jesse McReynolds">Jesse McReynolds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McGee_Brothers" title="McGee Brothers">McGee Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Monroe" title="Bill Monroe">Bill Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Morgan_(singer)" title="George Morgan (singer)">George Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon_Mullican" title="Moon Mullican">Moon Mullican</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_C._Newman" title="Jimmy C. Newman">Jimmy C. Newman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Osborne" title="Bobby Osborne">Bobby Osborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Osborne" title="Sonny Osborne">Sonny Osborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Paycheck" title="Johnny Paycheck">Johnny Paycheck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minnie_Pearl" title="Minnie Pearl">Minnie Pearl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Webb_Pierce" title="Webb Pierce">Webb Pierce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Pillow" title="Ray Pillow">Ray Pillow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Price_(singer)" title="Ray Price (singer)">Ray Price</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charley_Pride" title="Charley Pride">Charley Pride</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Del_Reeves" title="Del Reeves">Del Reeves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Reeves" title="Jim Reeves">Jim Reeves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Rhodes" title="Leon Rhodes">Leon Rhodes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tex_Ritter" title="Tex Ritter">Tex Ritter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marty_Robbins" title="Marty Robbins">Marty Robbins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Russell_(singer)" title="Johnny Russell (singer)">Johnny Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rusty_and_Doug" title="Rusty and Doug">Rusty and Doug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Scruggs" title="Earl Scruggs">Earl Scruggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Shepard" title="Jean Shepard">Jean Shepard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Slim_(country_singer)" title="Mississippi Slim (country singer)">Mississippi Slim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Smith_(musician)" title="Carl Smith (musician)">Carl Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiddlin%27_Arthur_Smith" title="Fiddlin' Arthur Smith">Fiddlin' Arthur Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Snow" title="Hank Snow">Hank Snow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Sovine" title="Red Sovine">Red Sovine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Stanley" title="Ralph Stanley">Ralph Stanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Ruby" title="Texas Ruby">Texas Ruby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._J._Thomas" title="B. J. Thomas">B. J. Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Jimmy_Thompson" title="Uncle Jimmy Thompson">Uncle Jimmy Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Tillis" title="Mel Tillis">Mel Tillis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tompall_%26_the_Glaser_Brothers" title="Tompall & the Glaser Brothers">Tompall & the Glaser Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Tubb" title="Ernest Tubb">Ernest Tubb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justin_Tubb" title="Justin Tubb">Justin Tubb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leroy_Van_Dyke" title="Leroy Van Dyke">Leroy Van Dyke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porter_Wagoner" title="Porter Wagoner">Porter Wagoner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Walker_(musician)" title="Billy Walker (musician)">Billy Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Walker_(musician)" title="Charlie Walker (musician)">Charlie Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitty_Wells" title="Kitty Wells">Kitty Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dottie_West" title="Dottie West">Dottie West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Whitley" title="Keith Whitley">Keith Whitley</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slim_Whitman" title="Slim Whitman">Slim Whitman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Wilburn_Brothers" title="The Wilburn Brothers">The Wilburn Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Williams" title="Don Williams">Don Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Williams" title="Hank Williams">Hank Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boxcar_Willie" title="Boxcar Willie">Boxcar Willie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Willis_Brothers" title="The Willis Brothers">The Willis Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chubby_Wise" title="Chubby Wise">Chubby Wise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Del_Wood" title="Del Wood">Del Wood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Worth" title="Marion Worth">Marion Worth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnnie_Wright" title="Johnnie Wright">Johnnie Wright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tammy_Wynette" title="Tammy Wynette">Tammy Wynette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faron_Young" title="Faron Young">Faron Young</a></li></ul> <p> †Honorary former member; was scheduled to be invited, but died before the invitation was extended</p> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="West_Virginia_Music_Hall_of_Fame180" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:West_Virginia_Music_Hall_of_Fame" title="Template:West 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<li><a href="/wiki/George_Crumb" title="George Crumb">George Crumb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazel_Dickens" title="Hazel Dickens">Hazel Dickens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Jimmy_Dickens" title="Little Jimmy Dickens">Little Jimmy Dickens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnnie_Johnson_(musician)" title="Johnnie Johnson (musician)">Johnnie Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark_Kessinger" title="Clark Kessinger">Clark Kessinger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molly_O%27Day_(singer)" title="Molly O'Day (singer)">Molly O'Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blind_Alfred_Reed" title="Blind Alfred Reed">Blind Alfred Reed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Edd_Wheeler" title="Billy Edd Wheeler">Billy Edd Wheeler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Withers" title="Bill Withers">Bill Withers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Class<br />of 2008</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Baker_(singer)" title="Ann Baker (singer)">Ann Baker</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Stoney Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilma_Lee_Cooper" title="Wilma Lee Cooper">Wilma Lee Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phyllis_Curtin" title="Phyllis Curtin">Phyllis Curtin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Drasnin" title="Robert Drasnin">Robert Drasnin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Lilly_Brothers" title="The Lilly Brothers">The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_McCoy" title="Charlie McCoy">Charlie McCoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maceo_Pinkard" title="Maceo Pinkard">Maceo Pinkard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Sovine" title="Red Sovine">Red Sovine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankie_Yankovic" title="Frankie Yankovic">Frankie Yankovic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Class<br />of 2009</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Bailes_Brothers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Bailes Brothers (page does not exist)">The Bailes Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Combs" title="Larry Combs">Larry Combs</a>,</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_De_Vol" title="Frank De Vol">Frank De Vol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawkshaw_Hawkins" title="Hawkshaw Hawkins">Hawkshaw Hawkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Redman" title="Don Redman">Don Redman</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nat_Reese&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nat Reese (page does not exist)">Nat Reese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chickie_Williams" title="Chickie Williams">Chickie Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doc_Williams_(singer)" title="Doc Williams (singer)">Doc Williams</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Class<br />of 2011</th><td 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