Ralph Stanley

You have to admit, he cuts a mighty strange figure on the pop charts: Dr. Ralph E. Stanley,
America's greatest living bluegrass musician, a seventy-five-year-old Appalachian bard who
kicks out the jams onstage harder and longer than most musicians a fourth his age. After
decades on the road with his Clinch Mountain Boys, Stanley hit the mainstream last year
singing "O Death," on the best-selling O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, fe... More >