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Oct 14, 2009 · Last week, Mr. Stanley was in New York with his band, the Clinch Mountain Boys, as part of a double bill at Carnegie Hall with Steve Martin, who had teamed up with the Steep Canyon Rangers, a...
Ralph Edmund Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016) was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing. He began playing music in 1946, originally with his older brother Carter Stanley as part of The Stanley Brothers, and most often as the leader of his band, The Clinch Mountain Boys.
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Jun 24, 2016 · Ralph Stanley, the singer, banjo player and guardian of unvarnished mountain music who was also a pivotal figure in the recent revival of interest in bluegrass, died on Thursday. He was 89.
- Bill Friskics-Warren
Jun 24, 2016 · Singer and banjo player Ralph Stanley, the bluegrass pioneer who has been making records for more than 60 years, died yesterday. He was 89 years old. Stanley first started recording in the...
Jun 26, 2016 · Stanley, who has died aged 89, was rooted in the Appalachian terrain in which bluegrass grew, and from which his vast store of ballads, songs, banjo tunes and sacred music was harvested.
Jun 26, 2016 · The bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley, who died Thursday evening, at the age of eighty-nine, leaves behind an enormously influential—and just plain enormous—body of work. As one half of the ...
Jun 25, 2016 · This story is over 5 years old. How Ralph Stanley Overcame Tragedy and the Persistence of Time to Change Country Music. A look back at the Virginia legend, whose influence on country and...
