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Ralph Edmund Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016) was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing. He began playing music in 1946, originally with his older brother Carter Stanley as part of The Stanley Brothers, and most often as the leader of his band, The Clinch Mountain Boys.
Time is spent with bluegrass star Ralph Stanley, who rides in a limousine to Nashville, Tennessee, and is interviewed on radio station WSM, whose DJ introduces him as "the newest member of WSM's Grand Ole Opry", despite his having performed professionally as a country musician since the 1960s.
Appalachian music singer and bluegrass music legend Ralph Stanley died on Thursday at the age of 89.
Ralph Stanley of The Stanley Brothers personally recorded the a cappella folk song "O Death". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] " I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow " has five variations: two are used in the film, one in the music video , and two in the album.
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Indiana University Press' The Journal of Folklore Research has asserted that a Lloyd Chandler song on the album, "A Conversation With Death" was an early form of "O Death"—a song which Ralph Stanley won a Grammy award for, featured on the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack. [4] [5]
Ralph Stanley won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for his rendition of this song. [2] Indiana University Press' The Journal of Folklore Research features articles in a 2004 issue asserting that "O, Death" is Chandler's song "A Conversation with Death", which he performed for several years while preaching in Appalachia. [1]