Ralph Stanley, one of the founding fathers and great originals of American bluegrass music, died on Thursday. He was 89. His grandson, Nathan, posted on his Facebook page that Ralph Stanley died after ...

Ralph Stanley, pioneering bluegrass musician and one of the foremost remaining links to the origins of traditional American music, died Thursday evening at his home in Sandy Ridge, Virginia due to ...

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 ...

Nathan Stanley can say he started learning his craft at his grandfather’s knee. Literally. “I’ve been on stage with him since I was 2 years old, and I’ve watched every move he made,” the vocalist and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, died Thursday. He was 89.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, died Thursday. He was 89.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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 ...