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Laid-back Stanley enjoys being onstage
August 30, 2010
Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley just takes each day as it comes. Whether it’s playing music or spending time with family, Stanley, a young-sounding . . . He’s 32 now and has two kids — a boy and a girl — and he’s got a band, too. TN: What’s the best advice you’ve given Ralph Stanley II?
The bluegrass is greener closer to shore
August 21, 2010
Ralph Stanley made me cry. The octogenarian bluegrass music legend, who first struck Clinch Mountain gold with brother Carter back in the day and . . . bow. It was pure emotion, joy and sorrow all at once. I felt at that moment I had forever reconnected with that music. Tears ran down my cheeks.
Music & Dance: Ralph Stanley, bluegrass stars come to Bethel
August 20, 2010
He may have been named a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress. He may have won the nation's highest artistic honor, a National Medal of the . . . some 83 years ago, Big Spraddle, Va. — surrounded by his children and grandchildren, in a house with no e-mail, no cell phone and no fax machine.
American legends: Ralph Stanley
January 21, 2010
Photographer Jamie-James Medina spent a year chronicling the living legends of US music for Observer Music Monthly. Watch his film of bluegrass star Ralph Stanley in conversation and performance.
Dr. Ralph Stanley on MySpace
November 17, 2009
Dr. Ralph Stanley on Facebook
September 11, 2009
Dr. Ralph Stanley Website
September 9, 2009