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Ralph Edmund Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016), also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing. Stanley began playing music in 1946, originally with his brother Carter as part of "The Stanley Brothers", and most often as the leader of his band, "Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys". He was part of the first generation of bluegrass musicians and was inducted into both the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor and the Grand Ole Opry. Read more on Last.fm
Stanley’s aged, tough mountain croon is a Heavenly created, hell tested channel by which these near ninety year old songs are filtered. And by filtered, I mean almost nothing is changed. If you went to a church in the Virginia mountains circa 1925, somebody’s grandfather was singing this the same way Ralph does here.