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, ...

Attend a Ralph Stanley concert and you're bound to hear songs about God, moonshine, those lonesome hills and lost loved ones. You might also take in a commercial or two or three … or 10. With his ...

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 ...

In his new autobiography, Man of Constant Sorrow, Stanley recounts a career spanning six decades and millions of miles. Ralph and his brother Carter formed the Stanley Brothers in 1946, at the birth ...