Bluegrass music icon Ralph Stanley has died. The singer and banjo player passed away on Thursday (June 23), at the age of 89, due to difficulties from skin cancer, a press release reports. Born on Feb ...

COEBURN, Va. -- Virginia bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley is releasing a collection of hymns and spirituals. Nashville's Rebel Records said the album, called "A Mother's Prayer," will be released April ...

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 ...

Reporting from Nashville, Tenn. — Ralph Stanley “carried the ancient sounds,” in the words of his protege Ricky Skaggs. Skaggs and others noted an uncanny quality in the style of the bluegrass ...