{"id":323,"date":"2015-02-08T09:23:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturated.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2015-02-09T23:17:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T04:17:42","slug":"ralph-stanley-and-friends-man-of-constant-sorrow-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturated.com\/ralph-stanley-and-friends-man-of-constant-sorrow-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Stanley and Friends- Man of Constant Sorrow Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ralph Stanley<\/strong><\/a> may not have invented bluegrass, but\u2013 at age 87\u2013 he\u2019s old enough to have performed with the man\u00a0who\u00a0did.<\/p>\n

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Growing up in the Clinch Mountains of rural southwest Virginia, Stanley\u00a0learned to play clawhammer-style banjo<\/a> from his mother and soon developed his own unique style, which continues to influence young banjo players today.<\/p>\n

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By 1946 Ralph and his brother Carter had formed a duo, the Stanley Brothers<\/strong><\/a> (which later evolved into The Clinch Mountain Boys), becoming the first group to copy the bluegrass sound popularized by Bill Monroe. Carter sang lead and played guitar, while Ralph\u2019s searing high tenor harmonies established a distinctive soulful sound that made them among the most popular bluegrass acts of the \u201850s and \u201860s.<\/p>\n

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