{"id":2114,"date":"2016-06-26T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T10:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bear-family.de\/blog\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2016-06-26T10:20:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T10:20:20","slug":"bluegrass-pioneer-ralph-stanley-dies-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bear-family.de\/bear-family-records-blog\/2016\/06\/26\/bluegrass-pioneer-ralph-stanley-dies-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluegrass Pioneer Ralph Stanley Dies at 89 \/ Bluegrass-Pionier Ralph Stanley stirbt mit 89 Jahren"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBluegrass Pioneer Ralph Stanley Dies at 89<\/strong>
\nRalph Stanley<\/strong><\/a>, last of the great bluegrass musicians of his generation, died June 24 at his home in Sandy Ridge, Virginia due to complications from skin cancer. Stanley will be remembered as an icon of traditional American music.
\nRalph Stanley listened to the early country music sounds of the Carter Family while growing up in Virginia\u2019s southwest. He was raised in the Appalachian mountains, sang in church and learned to play banjo. With his brother, Carter, the Stanley Brothers made their first recordings in 1947. Along with Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs, the brotherly duo transferred \u201eMountain Music\u201c (as Ralph would describe their style) into mainstream and popular bluegrass music. Carter Stanley died in 1966.
\nAfter his brother\u2019s untimely death, Ralph Stanley focussed on a more traditional sound with the Clinch Mountain Boys, a group he would lead for the next fifty years.
\n\u201cHis driving, arpeggiated banjo style, led with the index finger instead of the thumb, and now known widely as \u2018Stanley Style,\u2019 was as important to the development of bluegrass as the banjo itself,\u201d wrote John Curtis Goad in Bluegrass Today after Stanley\u2019s passing.
\nRalph Stanley has influenced several generations of musicians, from Bob Dylan who once told Stanley, \u201cYou will live forever!\u201c, and Marty Stuart to contemporary country artists like Lee Ann Womack.
\nHe was involved in the soundtrack to the blockbuster movie, \u2019O Brother, Where Art Thou?\u2019 and he received a Grammy in 2002 for Oh Death<\/em>, an a cappella song included in the movie\u2019s soundtrack. On his last album which came out in 2015, Ralph Stanley was supported by artists like Gillian Welch, Ricky Skaggs, Elvis Costello, and Robert Plant.
\nWith Ralph Stanley\u2019s death, the music world has lost one of the finest ambassadors of bluegrass and of the traditional American songbook.
\nBased on an article <\/em>by Jonathan Bernstein<\/em><\/a>
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\nDer Bluegrass-Pionier Ralph Stanley stirbt mit 89 Jahren<\/strong>
\nRalph Stanley, einer der letzten gro\u00dfartigen Bluegrass-Musiker seiner Generation, starb am 24. Juni 2016 in seinem Haus in Sandy Ridge, Virginia, an den Folgen einer Hautkrebserkrankung. Er wird f\u00fcr immer als Ikone traditioneller amerikanischer Musik in Erinnerung bleiben.
\nRalph Stanley wurde 1927 geboren. In diesem Jahr machte Ralph Peer seine bahnbrechenden Field Recordings in Bristol im Osten Tennessees und nahm u.a. die Carter Family auf. Ralph wuchs im S\u00fcdwesten von Virgina auf, sang im Kirchenchor und h\u00f6rte gerne … die Carter Family. Durch seine Mutter lernte er, Banjo zu spielen. 1947 machte er zusammen mit seinem Bruder Carter unter dem Namen Stanley Brothers erste Aufnahmen. Zusammen mit Bill Monroe und Flatt and Scruggs \u00fcberf\u00fchrten die beiden traditionelle Mountain Music als Bluegrass Music in den Mainstream der Country Music. Carter Stanley starb 1966.
\nNach dem pl\u00f6tzlichen, viel zu fr\u00fchen Tod seines Bruders wandte sich Ralph mit den Clinch Mountain Boys, einer Formation, die er f\u00fcnfzig Jahre lang leiten sollte, einem sehr traditionellen Sound zu.
\n\u201eSein pulsierender Arpeggio-Stil auf dem Banjo, angef\u00fchrt vom Zeigefinger und nicht vom Daumen, heute weitl\u00e4ufig bekannt als der \u201aStanley-Stil\u2019, war ebenso bedeutsam f\u00fcr die Entwicklung des Bluegrass wie das Banjo selbst\u201c, schrieb John Curtis Goad in \u2019Bluegrass Today\u2019 nach dem Tod von Stanley.
\nRalph Stanley hat mehrere Musikergenerationen beeinflusst, von Bob Dylan, der ihm einst ein Telegramm mit den Worten: \u201eSie werden ewig leben\u201c schickte, und Marty Stuart bis hin zu zeitgen\u00f6ssischen Countrys\u00e4ngern wie Dierks Bentley und Lee Ann Womack.
\nIn sp\u00e4ten Jahren wirkte er u.a. mit am Soundtrack zu dem legend\u00e4ren Blockbuster-Film \u201aOh Brother, Where Art Thou?\u2019. 2002 bekam er einen Grammy f\u00fcr seine unbegleitete Version von Oh Death<\/em> aus dem Soundtrack. Auf seinem letzten Album, das 2015 erschien, wurde Ralph Stanley u.a. von Gillian Welch, Ricky Skaggs, Elvis Costello und Robert Plant begleitet.
\nMit dem Tod von Ralph Stanley hat die Musikwelt einen der letzten gro\u00dfen Botschafter des Bluegrass und des traditionellen amerikanischen Songbooks verloren.
\nNach einem Artikel <\/em>by Jonathan Bernstein<\/em><\/a>
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