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Island hosts - Steep Canyon
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... comedian/banjoist Steve Martin and a month-long tour in Germany. A show with Mr. Martin and bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley at Carnegie Hall put the spotlight on a band whose time, reviewers say, has come. According to concert organizer Tom Hashagen, ... Comment?
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Blue Ridge roots inspire Crazy Heart director
... Virginia, where my mother and father would take me to see (bluegrass pioneers) Bill Monroe and Doc Watson and Ralph Stanley. ... When I first sent the "Crazy Heart" screenplay to T-Bone and went to a meeting at his house, right across from me in his ... Comment?
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Highway 40 Blues - Ricky Skaggs
... worth of music. At age seven he appeared on TV with Flatt & Scruggs; at 15 he was a member of legendary Ralph Stanley's bluegrass band (with fellow teenager Keith Whitley). None of his '80s peers, male or female, had better musical credentials than ... Comment?
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BRI included on National Geographic map
... trails in the nation's Appalachian Region from New York to Georgia. It includes color photos, including one of Ralph Stanley, a bluegrass music legend for more than 50 years. The Crooked Road Heritage Music Trail begins ini3 4 Rocky Mount and ends ... Comment?
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A monthly jam: There's room for bluegrass in Salem
... by Butch Ross, Del McCoury's "You're a Flower in the Wildwood" and "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke," popularized by Ralph Stanley. The Bluegrass Jam has been a monthly staple at Gulu-Gulu for about 11A 2 years; it moved from the Bay Bridge when that ... Comment?
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National banjo champion Charles Wood keeps it real in Seneca - and all over
... years. ... They're all good, but they're not bluegrass. Bluegrass is Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley. Their music is pure, clean and devoid of amps and synthesizers. Theirs is the music, he sighs, that made him fall in love with ... Comment?
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... -- and admitted to being nervous and perspiring. Somali-born rapper K'naan did a mini-gig. Bluegrass godfather Ralph Stanley offered an a cappella Amazing Grace . Party rocker Andrew W.K. banged out surprisingly sweet improvisational keyboard ... Comment?
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... a comfortable whole. Inside 49 West, it's positively toasty. Full circle In a scratchy falsetto that might do Ralph Stanley proud, he belts out a tear-jerker from the Depression era, "I've Endured," working solos on his guitar between verses. Tice ... Comment?
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For readers, it's music to remember
How exactly did The Beatles destroy rock 'n' roll? Why were so many Great American Songbook standouts penned by Jewish tunesmiths? And what exactly is the Tao of Wu? These and other musical questions are addressed in noteworthy books in a year in which authoritative biographies of Louis Armstrong, Ralph Stanley, and David Bowie compete for ... Comment?
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Ne... - Ricky Skaggs / James Tay...
... worth of music. At age seven he appeared on TV with Flatt & Scruggs; at 15 he was a member of legendary Ralph Stanley's bluegrass band (with fellow teenager Keith Whitley). None of his '80s peers, male or female, had better musical credentials than ... Comment?
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Bluegrass Artists Don Rigsby Returns To Full-Time Music
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... Rigsby has lived in Eastern Kentucky where Bluegrass music blankets the hills. Don was raised on the sounds of Ralph Stanley, his cousin Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley and with a family full of Bluegrass and Old-Time musicians, it was only natural ... Comment?
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Dr. Stanley is as steady a performer as they come. He's carried on as a standard-bearer for the lonesome-mountain sound in bluegrass and old-time music for the 40 years since he lost his lead-singing brother and musical partner, Carter-even as The Clinch Mountain Boys lineup has changed, and age has given his already haunting voice a more ragged ... Comment?
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Jo Dee Messina, Dr. Ralph Stanley among stars shining as Clayton Center opens in spring
... 2009 2:45PM Last modified: December 16. 2009 5:21PM Country music star Jo Dee Messina and bluegrass legend Dr. Ralph Stanley are among the premier events for the spring opening of Clayton Center for the Arts, with Messina headlining the grand ... Comment?
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Ne... - Ricky Skaggs / James Tay...
... worth of music. At age seven he appeared on TV with Flatt & Scruggs; at 15 he was a member of legendary Ralph Stanley's bluegrass band (with fellow teenager Keith Whitley). None of his '80s peers, male or female, had better musical credentials than ... Comment?
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Stuff to Tell People to Get You for Xmas/Solstice/Etc
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... in the remote hills and hollows of Southwest Virginia, has even deeper roots. In Man of Constant Sorrow, Dr. Ralph Stanley gives a surprisingly candid look back on his long and incredible career as the patriarch of old-time mountain music. Marked by ... Comment?
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Jo Dee Messina, Dr. Ralph Stanley among stars shining as Clayton Center opens in spring
Country music star Jo Dee Messina and bluegrass legend Dr. Ralph Stanley are among the premier events for the spring opening of Clayton Center for the Arts, with Messina headlining the grand opening weekend. Comment?
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Rebel Celebrates 2009 and Readies for 50th Anniversary
... England. One of the highlights was a New York City show at Carnegie Hall with fellow Rebel recording artist RALPH STANLEY also on the bill. In other Rangers news, the band's newest release Deep In The Shade debuted as the #1 album in the magazine ... Comment?
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How exactly did the Beatles destroy rock-and-roll? Why were so many Great American Songbook standouts penned by Jewish tunesmiths? And what exactly is the Tao of Wu? These and other musical questions are addressed in noteworthy books in a year in which authoritative biographies of Louis Armstrong, Ralph Stanley, and David Bowie compete for ... Comment?
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... The subject of a major feature in a 2008 issue of Bluegrass Now magazine, they've been invited to open for Ralph Stanley (as pure as pure bluegrass gets) and the Avett Brothers (as hip as they come). Tom Baker plays banjo, Michael Paynter is on ... Comment?
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... with Bill Monroe, the Stoneman Family and other acts, but he will be best remembered as the bass player in Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys. He joined what became the longest-lived band in bluegrass in 1970 and never took another job; it was ... Comment?
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