Ralph Stanley (1927–2016)
Autore di Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: 2006 National Medal of Arts recipient and bluegrass icon Dr. Ralph Stanley with President and Mrs. Bush
White House Photo by Paul Moore
White House Photo by Paul Moore
Opere di Ralph Stanley
Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop 4 copie
I Feel Like Singing Today 3 copie
Cry From The Cross 2 copie
Old Songs & Ballads Volume 2 2 copie
Hills of Home 1 copia
Bluegrass Today 1 copia
Shine on 1 copia
Clinch Mountain Gospel 1 copia
Single Girl / Little Birdie 1 copia
Christmas Time Back Home 1 copia
Almost Home 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Stanley, Ralph Edmund
- Altri nomi
- Stanley, Dr. Ralph
- Data di nascita
- 1927-02-25
- Data di morte
- 2016-06-23
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- McClure, Virginia, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Coeburn, Virginia, USA
- Causa della morte
- cancer (skin)
- Luogo di residenza
- Dickenson County, Virginia, USA
- Istruzione
- Ervinton High School
- Attività lavorative
- singer
banjo player - Organizzazioni
- The Stanley Brothers
The Clinch Mountain Boys - Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Medal of Arts (2006)
Honorary Doctorate, Lincoln Memorial University (Music ∙ 1976)
Honorary Doctorate, Yale University (Music ∙ 2014)
International Bluegrass Hall of Honor (1992)
Grand Ole Opry (2000)
Living Legend Award, Library of Congress (mostra tutto 7)
Traditional American Music Award, NEA - Breve biografia
- Ralph Stanley played and sang the old time mountain style of music, which bluegrass developed from.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 33
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 140
- Popolarità
- #146,473
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
The book starts in southwest Virginia, where Ralph and his older brother Carter grew up. There are a few "kid" stories and a general acknowledgement of growing up in hard times. Eventually, Carter and Ralph became The Stanley Brothers who sang country and gospel tunes on a Bristol radio station, just down the road from where the Bristol Sessions were recorded some three decades before. They were pretty popular in those early days, having a not-always-so-friendly competition with Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs for listeners. But in the late 1950s, music started to change, most notably with another singer who started out with gospel and country music but would later switch to rock. And after Elvis, the non-Nashville country sound almost disappeared from the map, later to be discovered again in the 1960s folk revival, and then re-discovered in the 2000s after the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Throughout it all, Ralph and his Clinch Mountain Boys tried to remain true to the music, rather than change their style to fit what listeners (or music producers) want to hear.
The parts I loved talked about the long life on the road, sometimes flinging your instruments on the roof of the car and traveling pell-mell just to get to a performance. (I also doubt I'll ever forget the story of the barber who lit his hair on fire as the "regular" special.) It fascinated me that Stanley rarely used a set list; the musicians just "got the feel" of the crowd and adapted. I've also always been amazed at the "cross-pollination" of musicians -- not limited to bluegrass ones, of course -- in that so many times, a band needed a "stringer" to play for them for a couple of dates, which may lead to a more permanent job down the road when one of the band members moves to a different group. We meet a lot of musicians who became a Clinch Mountain Boy, and their stories are as varied as the songs they sang.
There were two things that would have been nice to add to this book. The first is an index, as we have no way to see if a particular singer or song is mentioned. (As just one example, at one point, Stanley notes that he's already talked about his first wife -- apparently, it's not a particularly happy story -- but I don't remember ever reading about that, and there's no way to pinpoint where she might have been mentioned.) The second is that a book of this type usually has an inset of pictures. There's a collage on the overleaf, but there are really no captions there, so it's hard to tell who the people are.
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