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Ralph Stanley Net Worth
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Total Net Worth at the moment 2024 year – is about $243,5 Million.
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Ralph Stanley information Birth date: February 27, 1927 Birth place: Big Spraddle Creek, Virginia, USA Profession:Soundtrack, Actor, Music Department
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How tall is Ralph Stanley – 1,67m.
How much weight is Ralph Stanley – 72kg
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Biography,Ralph Edmond Stanley was born, grew up, and lived in rural Southwest Virginia—in a little town called McClure at a place called Big Spraddle, just up the holler from where he moved in 1936 and lived ever since in Dickenson County. The son of Lee and Lucy Stanley, Ralph did not grow up around a lot of music in his home. As he says, his daddy didnt play an instrument, but sometimes he would sing church music. And Id hear him sing songs like Man of Constant Sorrow, Pretty Polly and Omie Wise.I got my first banjo when I was a teenager. I guess I was 15, 16 years old. My aunt had this old banjo, and Mother bought it for me … paid $5 for it, which back then was probably like $5,000. [My parents] had a little store, and I remember my aunt took it out in groceries.He learned to play the banjo, clawhammer style, from his mother:She had 11 brothers and sisters, and all of them could play the five-string banjo. She played gatherings around the neighborhood, like bean stringins. She tuned it up for me and played this tune, Shout Little Luly, and I tried to play it like she did. But I think I developed my own style of the banjo.He graduated from high school on May 2, 1945 and was inducted into the Army on May 16, serving little more than a year. He immediately began performing when he got home:… my daddy and Carter picked me up from the (station), and Carter was playing with another group, Roy Sykes and the Blue Ridge Mountain Boys, and they had a personal appearance that night. So I sung a song with Carter on the radio before I even got home.Clinch Mountain BoysDr. Ralph Stanley in 2006After considering a course in veterinary, he decided instead to throw in with his older guitar-playing brother Carter Stanley (1925–1966) to form the Clinch Mountain Boys in 1946. Drawing heavily on the musical traditions of the area, which included the unique minor-key singing style of the Primitive Baptist Universalist church and the sweet down-home family harmonies of the Carter Family, the two Stanley brothers began playing on local radio stations. They first performed at Norton, Virginias WNVA, but did not stay long there, moving on instead to Bristol, Virginia, and WCYB to start the show Farm and Fun Time, where they stayed off and on for 12 years.At first they covered a lot of Bill Monroe music (one of the first groups to pick up the new bluegrass format). They soon found out that didnt pay off—we needed something of our own. So we started writing songs in 1947, 1948. I guess I wrote 20 or so banjo tunes, but Carter was a better writer than me. When Columbia Records signed them as The Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe left in protest and joined Decca. Later, Carter went back to sing for the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe.Ralph Stanley gave his opinion on Bill Monroes apparent change of heart: He [Bill Monroe] knew Carter would make him a good singer. . . Bill Monroe loved our music and loved our singing.The Stanley Brothers joined King Records in the late 50s, a record company so eclectic that it included James Brown at the time. In fact, James Brown and his band were in the studio when the Stanley Brothers recorded Finger Poppin Time. James and his band were poppin their fingers on that according to Ralph. At King Records, they went to a more Stanley style, the sound that people most know today.Ralph and Carter performed as The Stanley Brothers with their band, The Clinch Mountain Boys, from 1946 to 1966. Ralph kept the band name when he continued as a solo after Carters death, from 1967 to the present.SoloAfter Carter died of complications of cirrhosis in 1966, after ailing for a year or so, Ralph faced a hard decision on whether to continue performing on his own. I was worried, I didnt know if I could do it by myself. But boy, I got letters, 3,000 of em, and phone calls . . . I went to Syd Nathan at King and asked him if he wanted me to go on, and he said, Hell yes! You might be better than both of them.He decided to go it alone, eventually reviving The Clinch Mountain Boys. Larry Sparks, Roy Lee Centers, and Charlie Sizemore were among those with whom he played in the revived band. He encountered Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley arriving late to his own show: They were about 16 or 17, and they were holding the crowd til we got there. . . They sounded just exactly like (the Stanley Brothers). Seeing their potential, he hired them to give em a chance, though that meant a seven-member band. Eventually, his son, Ralph Stanley II, took over as lead singer and rhythm guitarist for The Clinch Mountain Boys.Clinch Mountain Boys membersThis section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)1967 to 2016Ralph Stanley (Lead vocalist, banjo)Jack Cooke (bass)Curly Ray Cline (fiddle)George Shuffler (guitar, bass)Melvin Goins (bass, guitar)Larry Sparks (Lead vocalist, guitar)Roy Lee Centers (Lead vocalist, guitar)Ricky Skaggs (mandolin, fiddle)Keith Whitley (Lead vocalist, guitar)Charlie Sizemore (Lead vocalist, guitar)Hook n Beans {Buddy Moore } lead singer- guitarRicky Lee (guitar)Junior Blankenship (guitar)Kenneth Davis (guitar)Renfro Proffit (guitar)Ron Thomason (mandolin)Steve Sparkman (banjo)James Alan Shelton (guitar)Sammy Adkins (Lead vocalist, guitar)Todd Meade (fiddle)Ralph Hank Smith (Lead guitar)Ernie Thacker (Lead vocalist, guitar, mandolin)John Rigsby (mandolin)Dewey Brown (fiddle),(Vocals)Jimmy Cameron (Bass), (Vocals)Audey Ratliff (bass)Ralph Stanley II (Lead vocalist, guitar)Nathan Stanley (mandolin, Lead vocalist, guitar)James Price (fiddle)Randall Joe Hibbitts (bass)Mitchell Van Dyke (banjo)Jarrod Church (banjo)Alex Hibbitts (Mandolin)Jimmy Vaughn (Rhythm Guitar, Vocals)Political careerAround 1970, he ran for Clerk of Court and Commissioner of Revenue in Dickenson County only to state this:What happened is, somebody traded me off—they used my popularity and money to elect somebody else. I was done dirty. And Im so proud that I was done dirty, because if I had been elected … I woulda had a job to do … maybe woulda finally quit. So thats one time I was done dirty and I want to thank them for it now.O Brother, Where Art Thou?Stanleys work was featured in the very popular 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, in which he sings the Appalachian dirge O Death. The soundtracks producer was T-Bone Burnett. Stanley said the following about working with Burnett:T-Bone Burnett had several auditions for that song. He wanted it in the Dock Boggs style. So I got my banjo and learned it the way he did it. You see, I had recorded O Death three times, done it with Carter. So I went down with my banjo to Nashville and I said, T-Bone, let me sing it the way I want to sing it, and I laid my banjo down and sung it a cappella. After two or three verses, he stopped me and said, Thats it.With that song, Stanley won a 2002 Grammy Award in the category of Best Male Country Vocal Performance. That put the icing on the cake for me, he said. It put me in a different category.Later life and deathKnown in the world of bluegrass music by the popular title, Dr. Ralph Stanley (after being awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee in 1976), Stanley was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1992 and in 2000, and became the first person to be inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in the third millennium.He joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night cast CD Christmas Times A Comin’, performing Christmas Times A Comin with the cast on the CD released on Sonlite and MGM/UA, it was one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers.He was featured in the Josh Turner hit song Me and God released in 2006.John and Elizabeth Edwards with Ralph Stanley and Clinch Mountain Boys, July 18, 2007In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.On November 10, 2007, Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys performed at a rally for presidential candidate John Edwards in Des Moines, Iowa, just before the Democratic Partys annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. Between renditions of Man of Constant Sorrow and Orange Blossom Special, Stanley told the crowd that he had cast his first vote for Harry S. Truman in 1948 and would cast his next for John Edwards in 2008.Country singer Dwight Yoakam has stated that Ralph Stanley is one of his musical heroes.Stanleys autoBiography, , Man of Constant Sorrow, coauthored with the music journalist Eddie Dean, was released by Gotham Books on October 15, 2009. In 2012, Stanley was featured on several tracks of the soundtrack for Nick Caves film Lawless, with music by Cave and Warren Ellis. His solo track White Light/White Heat is prominent in several scenes of the movie.Stanley maintained an active touring schedule, appearances in recent years have included the 2012 Muddy Roots Music Festival in Cookeville, TN, and the 2013 FreshGrass Festival in North Adams, MA. In June 2013, he announced a farewell tour, scheduled to begin in Rocky Mount, NC, on October 18 and extending to December 2014. However, upon notification of being elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (awarded October 11, 2014) a statement on his own website appeared, saying that he would not be retiring.[11]On June 23, 2016, Stanley died as a result of skin cancer.[12]
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