Ernest "Pop" Stoneman had been one of the most recorded country and old-time artists of the 1920s, placing him among the earliest commercial documentarians of Appalachian music before the Depression effectively ended his recording career. By the early 1960s, his children — particularly Scotty, Roni, and Donna Stoneman — had begun performing together as a family unit, carrying the Stoneman name back into commercial recording at the moment when the folk revival was creating a new audience for music rooted in traditional American forms.

Their recordings for World Pacific Records, a Los Angeles-based label with strong ties to the folk and jazz markets, placed them within the revival context while trading on the family's authentic connection to the old-time tradition their father had helped document four decades earlier. "Groundhog" / "Take Me Home" (World Pacific 413), released in 1964, is representative of this World Pacific period — material drawn from the old-time and bluegrass repertoire, performed by a family unit that had absorbed the tradition from within rather than from outside it.

The Stoneman Family's 1960s recordings occupied an interesting position in the folk revival landscape: they were neither purely commercial country acts nor academic folklorists, but a family whose musical roots were genuine and whose generational continuity gave them a credibility that self-taught revival performers could not claim. Roni Stoneman would later become widely known as a cast member on the television program Hee Haw, while the family continued performing and recording in various configurations. The World Pacific sides represent the Stonemans at the intersection of revival-era folk marketing and a genuinely inherited traditional practice.

Session details drawn in part from the Bluegrass Discography.