So goes the gospel according to the grandson of Appalachian mountain music pioneer Ralph Stanley. Nathan Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys will celebrate his birthday on Aug. 15 at the Lincoln ...

Although Bill Monroe deserves the "Father of Bluegrass" moniker for popularizing a new interpretation of very old folk sounds, one game-changing bandleader does not a genre make. Bluegrass doesn’t ...

"I'll Answer the Call" All on Rebel "Echoes of the Stanley Brothers" Varese Sarabande Though bluegrass patriarch Ralph Stanley continues to record, CD reissues of his older recordings have become ...

Reporting from Nashville, Tenn. — Ralph Stanley “carried the ancient sounds,” in the words of his protege Ricky Skaggs. Skaggs and others noted an uncanny quality in the style of the bluegrass ...

Ralph Stanley favors songs that are older than he is, older than the bluegrass he's usually associated with. In fact, Stanley's music -- he prefers to call it "old-time mountain music" -- goes back to ...