Artist: Ralph Stanley
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #64 July-Aug 2006
Ralph Stanley – A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family
It’s fitting that Ralph Stanley has created a whole album’s worth of Carter Family covers, given that he was raised just a few mountains over from A.P., Sara and Maybelle’s home in Maces Springs, Virginia. The same deeply moving notes of faith, redemption, sorrow, and every emotion in between are caught in Stanley’s voice on [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
Ralph Stanley – Shine On
The sepia-toned photograph on this record’s cover shows a hoary-headed Stanley with an open Bible in his hands. Looking more prophet than preacher, he might as well be Moses standing atop Mt. Sinai with two tablets of stone. And surely he speaks just as directly to his longtime fan base with this album of classic [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Stanley Brothers – The King Years 1961-1965 / Ralph Stanley – Poor Rambler (His Complete King and Gusto Recordings)
It’s been ten long years since the release of The Stanley Brothers: The Early Starday King Years 1958-1961, and though the delay has been aggravating (to say the least), it’s a blessing to finally have its 4-CD companion set available. For one thing, virtually all of the commercial recordings of the Brothers are now in [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #44 March-April 2003
Ralph Stanley – Poor Rambler
Ralph Stanley and his brother Carter delivered twenty years of classic bluegrass as the Stanley Brothers. From their earliest radio exposure on WCYB’s “Farm And Fun Time” (Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia), through years of endless touring and major-label recording, until Carter’s death in 1966, the Stanleys amassed legions of fans. Even Bill Monroe’s legendary resentment of the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Ralph Stanley – Self-Titled
His legacy well-established by the end of the 1960s, Ralph Stanley has resolutely gone about the business of making the kind of living available to a first-generation bluegrass star. Which is to say, working: touring, cutting albums, largely for specialty labels, and training younger musicians. Only in that secluded world has he been a star, [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Dr. Ralph Stanley’s Memorial Bluegrass Festival – Hills of Home Park (Coeburn, VA)
The past year has been good to Ralph Stanley. Winner of a Grammy award for his a cappella rendition of “O Death” from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Stanley has suddenly found himself the toast of the town from Hollywood to New York to Nashville. Stanley’s turn in the national spotlight is a [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
Ralph Stanley & Friends – Clinch Mountain Sweethearts
As a successor to the most celebrated album of Ralph Stanley’s career, Clinch Mountain Country, and the less celebrated but equally wonderful Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, this set of sixteen mournful ballads and hymns, rendered as duets with female singers, pursues much more than a proven formula. In many ways, Clinch Mountain Sweethearts is [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Ralph Stanley – The blue, blue grass of home
Doctor Ralph Stanley has a new album coming out. That’s hardly news in itself — he’s been putting them out biannually for the last 30 years or so — but this one is different: Clinch Mountain Country, a two-disc set, pairs the 71-year old veteran banjo man with more than 30 guests in a project [...]
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