| Ralph Stanley (born February 25, 1927) is an American bluegrass musician.Stanley was born in Big Spraddle Creek, Virginia, near Stratton, Dickenson County, Virginia, USA.The son of Lucy and Lee Stanley, Ralph Edmond Stanley grew up in rural southwestern Virginia.Ralph and Carter performed as The Stanley Brothers with their band, the Clinch Mountain Boys from 1946 to 1966.After Carter died in 1966, Ralph Stanley continued to perform, eventually reviving the Clinch Mountain Boys.Larry Sparks, Roy Lee Centers, Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, and Charlie Sizemore were among those with whom he played in the revived band.Stanley has maintained an extensive touring schedule, with dates scheduled through 2007.Known in the world of bluegrass music by the popular title, "Dr.Ralph Stanley" (after being awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, in 1976), Stanley was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1992 and in 2000, and became the first person to be inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in the third millennium.In 2006 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.Appalachian dirge "O Death".He's featured in the Josh Turner hit song "Me and God," released in 2006.Ralph created a unique style of banjo playing, sometimes called "Stanley Style".It evolved from Scruggs style, which is a three finger technique."Stanley style" is distinguished by incredibly fast "forward rolls," led by the index finger, sometimes in the higher registers utilizing a capo.This article about a country musician from the United States is a stub.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.Try your hand at pickin' on the banjo!Music that stirs the soul...Come and visit the Ralph Stanley Museum and Traditional Mountain Music Center, participate in one of our upcoming programs, and learn how the land inspires man to make music.Combining the career of Dr.Follow the career of Ralph Stanley through the exhibits and learn how the environment and traditional music influenced his style.Welcome to the
Ralph Stanley Museum and Traditional Mountain Music Center!Traditional Mountain Music Center would like to wish you a very happy holiday season!Center Blog for more information about upcoming programs, special messages and announcements, and much more!Music that stirs the soul...Man with distinct talent...In October of 2004, a unique museum experience became available to music lovers: The Ralph Stanley Museum and Traditional Mountain Music Center.Even if you've already been touched by his music, you haven't fully experienced it until you've journeyed into the heart of Appalachia.The vision for the museum and music center is to preserve and promote mountain and Bluegrass music with workshops, seminars, and conventions.Special interactive features and updates will be incorporated into this web site during the months leading up to the opening of the museum.Sign in to get personalized recommendations.Hours() * 3600 + newCurrentTime.Minutes() * 60 + newCurrentTime.Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.See all 3 customer reviews...Available from these sellers.See all artists' picks on our Music You Should Hear page.To hear a song sample, click on "Listen" by that sample.Visit our audio help page for more information.Sheet music for Ralph stanley at Sheet Music Plus.Buy "The Other Mother: A Novel."Send Ralph Stanley ringtones to your cell phone now!Add a iframe that allows us to ping the server when this element becomes visible
a9AdsViewNamespace.Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet.Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?See all 348 customer reviews...The easiest way to shoot video reviews.Fans of those kinds of singers and fans of Bill Monroe can meet at a Ralph Stanley gig and all have a good time.This collection is sung by a man in his seventies, and it shows.The 11 songs are a nice mix of spirituals and bloody ballads and everything inbetween.Stanley because of his appearance in the film "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"Klan leader who wails the song "Oh Death!"Ralph is not a Klan kind of guy, and "Oh Death!"Was this review helpful to you?Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."It really does this, and has infinite replay value because the songs are timeless and the recording quality is great.Alot of bluegrass music has been given cheesy and superficial treatment, but this album is the real, hard core dark and dusty bluegrass we all love.Norman Blake appears on this recording as well giving it a true old school sound.Was this review helpful to you?Ralph Stanley: A list by J.Music You Should Hear: Artists' PicksWant to know what Norah Jones, Sting, and Il Divo are listening to?Find out in Music You Should Hear, where these and other artists tell you about the music they love.Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.Please note that we are unable to respond directly to all feedback submitted via this form, but we'll ask you to sign in so we can contact you if needed.Visit our Help department.Listen to Ralph Stanley now.We sell bluegrass and gospel music by Ralph Stanley on CD and cassette plus news and music reviews.Get Your Tickets to Ralph Stanley Today.Years after the untimely death of his brother, Ralph Stanley emerged from the Stanley Brothers as a band leader on his own, fronting The Clinch Mountain Boys.The Get Up Johns combine close tenor harmonies with adroit and polished musicians.Tag a public Flickr photo with:
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Help?Years after the untimely death of his brother, Ralph Stanley emerged from the Stanley Brothers as a band leader on his own, fronting The Clinch Mountain Boys.Sign Up or Sign In to comment on this event!Bone Burnett
Ralph Stanley's voice is not of this century.Its stark emotional urgency is rooted in a darker time, when pain was the common coin of life and the world offered sinful humanity no hope of refuge.Although Stanley has recorded nearly 200 albums, this is the first one released solely under his own name.No Clinch Mountain Boys."Well, I think it probably should be that," quips Stanley, "because I did most of it."Clinch Mountain Boys to back him, Burnett opted for a more subtle and minimalist approach, drawing on four endlessly inventive musicians he worked with on the O Brother project: Norman Blake (guitar, Weissenborn, mandocello), Stuart Duncan (banjo, fiddle), Mike Compton (mandolin) and Dennis Crouch (string bass)."Part of envisioning it out of the bluegrass box was to think of it as a string quartet," says Burnett, "to think of it as classical music, to take a very intimate look at Ralph Stanley, who he is and where his music comes from."He's way closer to Elvis Presley than the notion of 'Dueling Banjos.""Calling You," all the songs on Ralph Stanley have long and tangled histories.Uncle Dave Macon recorded "The Death of John Henry" in 1926; Washington Phillips "Lift Him Up, That's All" in 1927; Doc Boggs "False Hearted Lover Blues" in 1929; Dick Justice "Henry Lee" in 1929; Blind Gary Davis "Twelve Gates To The City" in 1938; Wade Mainer and the Sons of the Mountaineers "Look On And Cry" in 1939; and the Carter Family cut a variation of "Girl From The Greenbriar Shore" in 1941.The origin of the majestic "Great High Mountain" remains unclear."These were all old songs," Stanley observes."I'd heard some of them when I was a boy.He sent me 40 or 50 songs, I guess, to choose from."Of these, Stanley recorded 19, from which the final 11 were selected."One of Ralph Stanley's gifts is to be able to contain and express grief," observes T Bone Burnett.That's what we were looking for in all of these songs.Now 75 years old, Stanley has been performing professionally since he and Carter, formed their first group in their native southwestern Virginia in 1946.Jesse and the Osborne Brothers.After Carter's death, Ralph shifted the band's musical emphasis from bluegrass to an older, sadder, less adorned mountain style.While he has long been revered by enthusiasts of folk, bluegrass and country music, Stanley has lately been commanding the kind of honors due a musical original.He is the central figure in the D.Chris Hegedus documentary "Down From The Mountain."He holds the Living Legend award from the Library of Congress and was the first recipient of the Traditional American Music award from the National Endowment for the Humanities."Well, it's true these awards have been coming pretty fast," says the reticent, plainspoken Stanley, "but I enjoy every one of them."Of his Best Country Male Vocalist Grammy, he notes, "I was a little surprised, but that was the one I really hoped to win.It just felt so good I can't hardly tell you."He acknowledges that there are few major recognitions he still aspires to but adds, "Well, there is the Country Music Hall of Fame.It is his secluded retreat from the rigors of the road and the 150 to 200 shows he continues to do each year."When Ralph does what he does, it is what it is.And the sound of it is beautiful," wrote T Bone Burnett in the liner notes for Ralph Stanley, "Ralph has been keeping this flame for fifty five years, an heroic task, and he has done so with humility and a deep love that has only gotten deeper over time.This is an extraordinary thing.On this album, he goes backward to go forward." |
