Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music (Music in American Life)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 025206478X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Highly recommended bikes4fish Very enjoyable. John Wright went to the trouble of collecting reflections and recollections from many of Ralph Stanley's bandmates, friends, neighbors, and relatives. This fine book took me back to in the mid-1980's at The Barn at UC Riverside where I took my family to see Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, featuring Curley Ray Cline. Highly recommended.. returning home I was born in Mc Clure, Virginia the same area where Ralph Stanley is from. I wanted to know more about him personally. I know his music well and I knew some of his history. The book provides a good way to get to know Ralph Stanley through interviews with friends, fellow pickers and admirers. The stories allow you to get an up close and personal view of Ralph Stanley and is fun reading.. Jamie J. said Fascinating!. This book begins with a persoal account of Ralph Stanley's life that may have been the basis of his autobiography, "Man of Constant Sorrow". The succeeding chapters are accounts of those who knew Ralph and worked with him in the band over the years. Their memories offer a lot of history about Ralph Stanley, particularly in the years after Carter's death, and the kind of person he was and the times he lived in. Unfortunately, we don't hear from Carter, or Bill Monroe
Epling began is writing career in 1960 with a workon the history of the Baptist Church, called the Baptist Triumph.
23 photos.. An appendix covers Stanley's prolific recording activity, including 45 albums over a 20-year period. This portrait describes and evaluates Ralph Stanley's more than 40-year career with his Clinch Mountain Boys. Wright also reveals how Stanley's life and music developed after the death of his brother, Carter
But then, Wright renders the set of depositions (which is what this is instead of biography) from Stanley, fellow bluegrass musicians, and other Stanley associates into a reading experience far smoother than most examples of oral history. Malone. From Booklist This is not a formal biography of Ralph Stanley--"America's finest traditional singer," according to country music historian Bill C. That's too bad, because Wright may be the best writer, technically, writing about country music; we need vernacular music biographies and histories by such as he rather than by the press agents manqu{‚e and stilted scholars who usually write them. As the subtitle suggests, the big subject here is not the man Ralph Stanley or his career (though we learn much about the latter; as for the former, Stanle