SESSION history | pdf | print version 17104013D SENATE RESOLUTION NO.

108 Offered January 18, 2017 Celebrating the life of Ralph Edmond Stanley.

----------  Patron--Agreed Chafinto ----------by the Senate, January 26, 2017   WHEREAS, Ralph Edmond Stanley of Sandy Ridge, a Grammy-winning musician and one of the founding fathers of American bluegrass music, whose distinctive old-time mountain voice and banjo ballads inspired the next generation of bluegrass and country singers, died on June 23, 2016;

and WHEREAS, in 1946, the brothers formed their first band, the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys, and joined WCYB’s live radio program “FarmFarm and Fun Time”Time in Bristol, Tennessee, and, in 1947, they made their recording debut;

the movie popularized an arrangement of his famous songsong, “Man of Constant Sorrow”;

and WHEREAS, as a musician, Ralph Stanley always remained true to his roots, and he was one of the last and the purist of the traditional country artists;