It comes from the mountains, like the dogs a-barking, the hoot owls a-hollering… It’s a sound like no other sound, that comes from the mountains and hills of home where Ralph and Carter were born and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. --Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, has died. He was 89. Stanley died ...

Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley has died. Family members confirmed that the banjo player and leader of the Clinch Mountain Boys died on Thursday (June 23) at age 89 after a battle with cancer.

Together with his brother Carter, the Stanley Brothers created a smooth duet sound but it was Ralph's a capella rendition of "O Death" that took his name and voice beyond the bluegrass audience. PAUL ...

Legendary bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley died Thursday night at the age of 89. According to a message posted to Facebook by his grandson, Stanley succumbed to skin cancer after a long battle. The ...

Nathan Stanley greets family and friends prior to the memorial service for his grandfather Ralph Stanley on Tuesday in McClure, Virginia. Ralph Stanley died on June 23 of skin cancer. The poster in ...

Dr. Ralph Stanley is set to release an album of duets early next year. The legendary bluegrass artist will release 'Ralph Stanley & Friends: Man of Constant Sorrow' on Jan. 19 exclusively through ...

The bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley, who died Thursday evening, at the age of eighty-nine, leaves behind an enormously influential—and just plain enormous—body of work. As one half of the Stanley ...

Bluegrass great Ralph Stanely was no stranger to Tucson. He played regular shows here from the late 1990s through 2014, his last show here at Fox Tucson Theatre with his Clinch Mountain Boys. He was ...

Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley will be receiving a major honor Saturday (Oct. 11). The 87-year-old will be formally inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining an ...

Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley died June 23 at the age of 89. Along with his brother Carter (1925-1966), Stanley led one of the most remarkable groups in Bluegrass music and was one of the genre’s ...

It happened this past week -- the death of Ralph Stanley, considered a founding father of modern bluegrass music, though he himself preferred the term "mountain music." Born in rural Virginia, young ...