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Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley coming to Lenoir
February 23, 2010
Grand Ole Opry star and Bluegrass music legend Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys return to the Tarheel State on Saturday, February 27, 2010 . . . Boys" who had a booking that very night.  Ralph Stanley joined his brother on stage that night to sing a song and the rest, as they say, is history.
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.
The Electric City Playhouse Presents The Man of Constant Sorrorw
January 14, 2010
Join the Electric City Playhouse as they start their 26th year with the award winning Man of Constant Sorrow, a Stanley Brothers Musical by Douglas . . . It contains some of the great songs made famous by The Stanley Brothers - songs that will have you singin' along and flat-footin' in the aisles.
Eighty-four shows later Song of the Mountains is still going
January 14, 2010
Song of the Mountains officially debuted in July 2005. Eighty-four shows later, the monthly live concert and nationally syndicated public . . . its sixth season. Set for Jan. 15 at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Va., the show will feature bluegrass legend Dr. Ralph Stanley as the headliner.
Bay Chamber Concerts presents Ralph Stanley and His Clinch ..
January 14, 2010
Bay Chamber Concerts will present the legendary Grammy Award-winning bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley and His Clinch Mountain Boys at the Strand . . . at the Strand Theatre on Sunday, Jan. 24 at noon. The informal jam session of traditional bluegrass with members of the Clinch Mountain Boys ...
Books on musicians Ralph Stanley, Johnny Cash and Rosanne Cash …
January 13, 2010
You've heard that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. It's a vivid analogy, conveying the inherent difficulty of capturing the . . . to let Stanley "pull your ear for a good while, if you have the patience to set a spell" in his own unvarnished words is respectful but ill-advised.
Ralph Stanley to headline Jan. 15 show at Lincoln Theatre
January 8, 2010
Legendary bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys launch the 2010 season for the award-winning Song of the Mountains concert series . . . promising talents as Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, Larry Sparks and Charlie Sizemore, all of whom eventually graduated to distinguished solo careers.
Ralph Stanley: Live last night
December 14, 2009
Ralph Stanley made the supermarket tabloid National Examiner this year for saying in a then-unpublished autobiography that Tim McGraw wouldn't know a . . . including "Pretty Polly" and an a cappella "O Death," which is now to a Stanley show as the national anthem is to a ballgame. It never gets old.
Gift Ideas from Arthur Magazine No. 4: “Man of Constant Sorrow ..
December 14, 2009
A giant of American music opens the book on his wrenching professional and personal journeys, paying tribute to the vanishing Appalachian culture . . . by two brothers from a dying mountain culture, Man of Constant Sorrow captures a life harmonized with equal measures of tragedy and triumph.’
Local author Eddie Dean reflects on his favorite performances …
December 12, 2009
This fall, esteemed local music journalist Eddie Dean teamed up with bluegrass giant Ralph Stanley to release Stanley's autobiography "Man of . . . on clawhammer banjo -- an instrumental he learned from his mother Lucy -- and he gets an 80-year-old out of his chair and buck-dancing like a kid.
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