Dr. Ralph Stanley has gone home to be with Jesus........

"It’s hard to know what to say about legends in our industry. Accurately describing the importance of their contributions – and lifetime commitment – to bluegrass and traditional music is nearly impossible. This evening, one of the true founding fathers of this seventy-some year old musical genre, the International Bluegrass Hall of Honor and Grand Ole Opry member Ralph Edmund Stanley, has passed."........ Read more here... Ralph Stanley passes



I'll Fly  Away, Written by Albert E. Brumley, sung by the Stanley Brothers