Ralph Stanley obituary

Bluegrass musician with an ‘old-time mountain voice’ who found new audiences when his work featured in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?Following the death of Bill Monroe in 1996, Ralph Stanley became the leading name in bluegrass, embodying in both his music and his bearing the values of this most traditional form of country music. 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 t...

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