James King was a man with great musical talent and a voracious appetite for life. Those two things fed each other and helped him to emerge from the picker’s field to become one of the most popular and beloved bluegrass singers, from […]
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Though many music fans still do not recognize his name, Chris Hillman has had a monumental impact on American music and may have one of the most impressive resumes of any contemporary musician. He’s probably most famous for being a […]
Definitive? Really? The answer is an ever-so-slightly qualified “yes” — only because when you get down to it, 60 tracks simply isn’t enough to get all the really good Stanley Brothers stuff in. Not even when you’re the first, as […]
I was about to start this review by saying that it’s hard to imagine a kind of American music as far off the map as bluegrass was in 1956, when this album was taped, but then I remembered what time […]
It’s been ten long years since the release of The Stanley Brothers: The Early Starday King Years 1958-1961, and though the delay has been aggravating (to say the least), it’s a blessing to finally have its 4-CD companion set available. […]
Fifty years ago, the Stanley Brothers — Ralph, Carter and company — made their recording debut. One of the first tracks they committed to posterity was an as-of-then unreleased Bill Monroe composition called “Molly and Tenbrook”. Just a few bars […]
Ralph and Carter Stanley didn’t invent bluegrass — that bit of history belongs to Bill Monroe — but these brothers from McClure, Virginia, expanded and enlivened the form, and in the process became one of the music’s strongest forces. With […]
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