McCLURE — Ralph Stanley would have been proud. For the thousands of miles Stanley spent traveling the world to entertain fans of traditional music, he always returned home to the hills of Dickenson ...

One of the early leaders of bluegrass music, Ralph Stanley, has died at age 89. His death was announced by his grandson Nathan Stanley; Stanley's publicist said in a statement that the cause was ...

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, ...

BARBOURSVILLE — The Stanley Brothers were part of the first generation of artists to make a deep impact in the genre we now know as bluegrass music, which officially began in 1945 near the end of ...