Bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley was laid to rest on Tuesday (June 28), during an evening service in Virginia attended by loved ones, hundreds of fans and a number of country names -- including Vince Gill ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, has died. He was 89. Mr. Stanley ...

Ralph Stanley, now 82, has been singing and playing professionally since the '40s, but the music he performs now is not radically different from what he grew up playing and singing with his brother, ...

When Ralph Stanley died Thursday at age 89, we lost more than the last surviving founding father of bluegrass. We lost one of our last links to a pre-television America. He was a short, gaunt man in a ...

Ralph Stanley’s harrowing a cappella rendition of the dirge “O Death” on the soundtrack of the 2000 Coen Brothers movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” brought him a Grammy Award for “Best Male Country ...

The bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley, who died Thursday evening, at the age of eighty-nine, leaves behind an enormously influential—and just plain enormous—body of work. As one half of the Stanley ...

Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, has died. He was 89. Stanley died Thursday at his ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, has died. He was 89. Stanley ...