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Jun 23, 2016 · Explore Ralph Stanley's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. Learn all about Ralph Stanley on AllMusic.
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Ralph Stanley has been an inspiration to Bluegrass artist all over the country and world. The directors of "O' Brother, Where Art Thou?" used a more "modern"...
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Ralph Edmond Stanley. Profile: Born February 25, 1927 in Big Spraddle Creek, Virginia. Died June 23, 2016 at his home in the same mountains of southwestern Virginia where he was born. Brother of Carter Stanley, father of Ralph Stanley II, grandfather of Nathan Stanley. In 1976, Dr. Ralph Stanley received his Honorary Doctorate of Music from ...
Jun 24, 2016 · Ralph Stanley recalled growing up so poor on a farm in southwest Virginia that he used a stick as a make believe banjo when he sang at home with his older brother Carter. The Stanley Brothers ...
May 17, 2018 · Ralph Stanley is the patriarch of bluegrass, and a banjo player, singer, and songwriter whose work harkens back to the very genesis of the bluegrass style, although he is quick to assert that he plays "old time mountain soul." Stanley made his name singing with his brother Carter and their group, the Clinch Mountain Boys, in the late 1940s.
Dr. Ralph Stanley was born in 1927 in the Clinch Mountains of Virginia, which inspired much of his music. He and his brother Carter learned ballad singing and claw hammer-style banjo playing from their mother, whose repertoire ranged from traditional narrative songs to 19th-century hymns. After the brothers were discharged from the Army -- both ...
