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. Stanley died Thursday at his home in Sandy Ridge, Virginia, because of difficulties from skin cancer, pub...
you heard a version of bluegrass being performed as gospel — they used to call the hillbilly hymns. It was all around; it was what my family sang: the colloquial expression of the region.
you heard a version of bluegrass being performed as gospel — they used to call the hillbilly hymns. It was all around; it was what my family sang: the colloquial expression of the region.