Ralph Stanley

Last week Ralph Stanley released his autobiography, Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times. Diane Rehm has interviewed him about the book. You can listen to the interview here. Also there was an article in the New York Times.

I have downloaded the book to my Kindle. As soon as I finish the book I am reading now, this is what I plan to read next.

So here are a couple Ralph Stanley videos. From the time that he performed with his brother, Carter, as the Stanley Brothers, here is "Rank Strangers".



After Carter Stanley passed away in 1966, Ralph continued with his band the Clinch Mountain Boys. For a while Keith Whitley sang lead for Ralph. There are several good videos of that line up you can see at this link.

Here is a video with two songs, this first is "Rocky Island", the second is "Angel Band".



I could not pass up this last video, even though it is not a video for a song. Here is a video of Ralph Stanley and the Obama Girl making a video.