Bluegrass legend Dr. Ralph Stanley died Thursday night after a battle with skin cancer, according to a Facebook post by his grandson, Nathan Stanley.
Dr. Stanley was 89 years old and a member of the Grand Ole Opry and the Bluegrass Hall of Fame. After receiving an honorary Doctorate of Music from Lincoln Memorial University in 1976 (and another from Yale in 2014), he was known to fans worldwide as "Doctor Ralph."
http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/06/23/ralph-stanley-bluegrass-legend-dead-89/86038242/
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 24 June 2016 05:25 (seven years ago) link
A Facebook friend posted this. Apropos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPeeUpdK1U
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 24 June 2016 05:28 (seven years ago) link
Got one of those 8 Classic Albums box-CDs of the Stanley Brothers for a great price. Excellent winter driving music. This one feels almost sinister.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seaDfe_mtEE
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 February 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
I learned recently that that extra beat in Clinch Mountain Backstep (above) makes the tune "crooked" - which is kind of a catchall term for tunes that don't quite follow standard form. Usually means an extra bar, extra half bar, extra beat or something like that, but occasionally can be standard pulse/bars but with an odd or offbeat change.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 02:48 (two years ago) link