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Stanley was widely known in the world of bluegrass music by the popular title, "Dr. Ralph Stanley," after being awarded an honorary Doctor of Music from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, in 1976.
Legendary American bluegrass artist, Dr. Ralph Edmund Stanley, was internationally known for his unique, innovative style of singing and banjo playing. He was born and raised right here in Virginia, and to his last day Ralph Stanley called Dickenson County his beloved home.
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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 24, 2016 · By Alex Johnson. Ralph Stanley, the godfather of traditional bluegrass music who found a new generation of fans late in life thanks to his Grammy-winning music for the 2000 movie "O Brother,...
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Ralph Stanley was an American banjo player and singer who was a pioneer in post-World War II bluegrass and a leading figure in the early 21st-century revival of interest in that music genre. Stanley grew up in the mountains of far southwestern Virginia, where his mother taught him to play the banjo.
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Jun 23, 2016 · Ralph began playing banjo in a two-finger style reminiscent of Wade Mainer. He heard the emerging three-finger style from Snuffy and Hoke Jenkins, and adapted a distinctive variant in 1948, while both the Stanley Brothers and Flatt and Scruggs were appearing on WCYB, Bristol.
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Jun 26, 2016 · In the fifty years after that, working as a solo act in a style he was careful to identify not as bluegrass but as the old-time music that folks today call bluegrass, he recorded about a...
