Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music

The Porchlight Sessions

That's Bluegrass

Mountain Stage Bluegrass Special

Down from the Mountain

The Ralph Stanley Story

High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music

Bluegrass Country Soul

Route 66

Inner Sanctum

The Burning Cross

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. Ralph was also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley.
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.



Ralph Stanley