Ralph Stanley

Yesterday's edition of The Knoxville News Sentinel published an interview with Ralph Stanley, written by Wayne Bledsoe. The initial thrust of the piece is Stanley's recent receipt of a National Medal of Arts Award. Continuing from there, the article also delves

When rising country singer Josh Turner released his latest CD, Your Man, in January 2006, we posted that one of the tracks would feature a duet with bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley. Universal Music Nashville has made the full audio from

Here is a photo taken during the presentation ceremony for the National Medal Of Arts at the White House yesterday. Ralph Stanley was one of the recipients, and he is pictured next to President Bush. Click the photo for a larger

Ralph Stanley will be awarded a National Medal of Arts today in a ceremony in The Oval Office of The White House in Washington, DC. As indicated on the official Medal Of Arts web site: The National Medal of Arts is the

Pinecastle Records has two new CD releases that should be of interest to readers of Bluegrass Today. Jack Cooke has spent the past 37 years working as the bass player with Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys. Before that, he

Country music superstars Alabama have a new CD set for release on October 24, their first in more than five years. It will be a Gospel project, entitled Songs Of Inspiration, and will contain both familiar Gospel favoriates like Old

The November issue of Vanity Fair, which arrived in my mailbox a couple of days ago, features a photo spread of country music artists (it has George Clooney on the cover--yum!). Among those pictured are Alison Krauss and Ralph Stanley.

Today's edition of USA Today includes an article and interview with Ralph Stanley, primarily about his new CD, A Distant land To Roam: Songs of the Carter Family, recently released on DMZ/Columbia Records. The article is by Brian Mansfield and

In addition to the Reno & Smily reunion CD from 1971 which we mentioned earlier, Rebel Records had two other releases out this week. Dave Evans' Pretty Green Hills is his first release in five years, featuring his band, traditionally known

Rebel Records has reissued two Ralph Stanley albums as download only releases on Apple's iTunes Music Store. Both were originally released in the mid 1970s, during what is widely viewed as the hey day of Dr. Ralph's post-Carter era,