Ralph Stanley

The three CD reissues from Rebel that we previewed last month are officially released today. These include a first-time-on-CD reissue of JD Crowe's classic Bluegrass Holiday, and compilations of new-to-CD Gospel cuts from Ralph Stanley, Mountain Preacher's Child, and a budget-priced

Rebel Records is continuing their laudable efforts to get classic LPs released on CD, and/or for digital download. Many serious bluegrass fans had feared that much of the recorded legacy of bluegrass music might become unavailable when digital media took

We are all the richer for this set of remembrances of our beloved Ralph Stanley, contributed by Richard Thompson, just as we are for Stanley's life-long dedication to bluegrass and Appalachian music. We hope that everyone will read this entire

This post is a contribution from Richard Thompson, a founding member of the British Bluegrass Music Association, and a semi-regular correspondent and contributor for Bluegrass Today. He is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication

More great bluegrass is on tap in this Saturday night's Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast. The Del McCoury Band and Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys are featured this week, as are The Whites and Jesse McReynolds & The

We posted yesterday that Ralph Stanley had been hospitalized last week with a mild case of pneumonia. We just heard from his publicist, Norma Morris, who shared this good news: "He was in the hospital for a few days, but he

The venerable Dr. Ralph Stanley has been in the hospital in Big Stone Gap, VA since earlier this week, suffering from pneumonia. We asked Lee Olsen, who handles Ralph's dates with Keith Case & Associates, and he suggested that Dr.

There are a number of other bluegrass artists with Grammy nominations announced yesterday. Rhonda Vincent and Bobby Osborne are nominated in the Best Country Collaboration With Vocals category for Midnight Angel, from Rhonda's All American Bluegrass Girl CD. The Del McCoury Band

This post is a contribution from Richard Thompson, a founding member of the British Bluegrass Music Association. He is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. He wrote

Earlier this year, Rebel Records reissued a pair of classic Ralph Stanley recordings as iTunes download exclusives. Now comes word of two others, recently available again from the iTunes Music store. Down Where The River Bends was first released in 1978,