The Grammy Award-winning bluegrass pioneer died yesterday. He was 89. Stanley spoke to Fresh Air in 2002 about his career and his work on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. This is FRESH AIR.

Ralph Stanley was one of the bluegrass genre’s most influential figures. The banjo virtuoso was an early trailblazer of the then-fledging genre, quickly rising to prominence alongside his brother, ...

Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley died June 23 at the age of 89. Along with his brother Carter (1925-1966), Stanley led one of the most remarkable groups in Bluegrass music and was one of the genre’s ...

The bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley, who died Thursday evening, at the age of eighty-nine, leaves behind an enormously influential—and just plain enormous—body of work. As one half of the Stanley ...

Recorded in: Fincastle (Va.), United States, Virginia, September 4, 1965. 101 Follow the Leader and Stories / Don Reno. Fiddle,Banjo,Guitar 102 Cripple Creek / Don Reno. Fiddle,Banjo,Guitar 103 Bully ...

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 ...

Together with his brother Carter, the Stanley Brothers created a smooth duet sound but it was Ralph's a capella rendition of "O Death" that took his name and voice beyond the bluegrass audience. PAUL ...

“The Doctor is in the House.” That’s the buzz that would circulate when legendary musician Ralph Stanley arrived at a bluegrass festival. Stanley died Thursday at home in the mountains of Southwest ...

Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys perform "Little Birdie" during the 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. A live version of the song by The Stanley Brothers appears on 'Friends of Old Time ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, in for Terry Gross. Singer and banjo player Ralph Stanley, the bluegrass pioneer who has been making records for more ...