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Man of Constant Sorrow : My Life and Times Paperback - 2010
by Stanley, Ralph, Dean, Eddie
- Used
A giant of American music opens the book on his wrenching professional and personal journeys, paying tribute to the vanishing Appalachian culture that gave him his voice.
Description
Details
- Title Man of Constant Sorrow : My Life and Times
- Author Stanley, Ralph, Dean, Eddie
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
- Date 2010-11-02
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5476028-6
- ISBN 9781592405848 / 1592405843
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Topical: Country/Cowboy
- Library of Congress subjects Bluegrass musicians - United States, Stanley, Ralph
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Ralph Stanley was born in 1927 in a corner of Virginia known as Big Spraddle Creek, a place where music echoed from the ridge tops, was belted out by workers in the fields, and resonated in the one-room country church where Ralph first found his voice. For his eleventh birthday, Ralph was given five dollars, and had to chose between buying a sow or a banjo. He chose the banjo, which his mother taught him to play in the clawhammer style. In 1946, he combined his banjo with his brother Carter's guitar, and the two blended their voices into one as the Stanley Brothers. For twenty years the Stanleys chased the dream through good times and hard times, until the hard times caught up to Carter and he succumbed to liver disease at age 41. In the four decades since his brother's passing, Ralph has brought his music from the hills and hollows of southwest Virginia to the wide world.
Now in his eighties and still touring, Ralph has at last grown into his voice and is ready to tell his story. In Man of Constant Sorrow, Ralph looks back on his career in what most call bluegrass but what he prefers to call "old time mountain music." He recounts the creation of hundreds of classic tracks, including "White Dove," "Rank Stranger," and his signature song, "Man of Constant Sorrow." He tells tales from a life spent on road with his band the Clinch Mountain Boys, explains his distinctive "Stanley style" of banjo-playing, crosses paths with everyone from Bill Monroe to Bob Dylan, and reflects on his late-career resurgence sparked by an unlikely Grammy win in 2002 for his song "O Death." He also raises a dirge for Appalachia, his mountain home that is quickly disappearing.
Harmonized with equal measures of tragedy and triumph, Man of Constant Sorrow is the stirring testament of a giant of American music.