Sound · Original Music Composer
Born Feb 25, 1927 · McClure, Virginia, USA
Active 1947–2016 · Awards: National Medal of Arts, Library of Congress Living Legend, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctor of Yale University
Ralph Edmund Stanley 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…