Roots Music Report News Article
Ralph Stanley
Ralph Stanley’s Intimate Memoir,
Norma Morris, Morris Public Relations
2009-10-16
Norma Morris, Morris Public Relations
2009-10-16
Ralph Stanley’s Intimate Memoir,
Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life & Times,
Arrives in Bookstores Today
(Nashville, TN) – October 15, 2009--Dr. Ralph Stanley’s behind-the-scenes autobiography, Man Of Constant Sorrow: My Life & Times, makes its debut in bookstores today. It is being spotlighted by stories in the New York Times, USA Today as well as by the 82-year-old mountain singer’s recent appearance at Carnegie Hall.
Co-written with music journalist Eddie Dean, the book chronicles in Stanley’s own distinctive voice his rise from poverty and a broken home in rural Virginia to his musical pairing with his older brother, Carter, and the creation of the trailblazing Stanley Brothers sound to his career culmination as a multiple Grammy winner, member of the Grand Ole Opry and recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
In its ringing review of the book, Publishers Weekly observed, “Stanley's plainspoken narrative is told in a rural diction as though he were sitting in the front seat of an old Ford headed down the mountain for his next show. His story is a comprehensive and endearing cornucopia of authentic mountain music, place, family, friends, rivals, faith, love, life, death and the road.”
Labeling Stanley’s narrative “a delightful, outspoken surprise,” Kirkus Reviews concluded, “He's at his best recalling his backwoods upbringing, the vicissitudes of the bluegrass road, the murder of one of his lead singers, the power of gospel music and old-time religion and the fast-vanishing South of his boyhood. An often tart yet affecting music memoir.”
Stanley continues to tour with his band, the Clinch Mountain Boys.
Written By: Norma Morris, Morris Public Relations
Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life & Times,
Arrives in Bookstores Today
(Nashville, TN) – October 15, 2009--Dr. Ralph Stanley’s behind-the-scenes autobiography, Man Of Constant Sorrow: My Life & Times, makes its debut in bookstores today. It is being spotlighted by stories in the New York Times, USA Today as well as by the 82-year-old mountain singer’s recent appearance at Carnegie Hall.
Co-written with music journalist Eddie Dean, the book chronicles in Stanley’s own distinctive voice his rise from poverty and a broken home in rural Virginia to his musical pairing with his older brother, Carter, and the creation of the trailblazing Stanley Brothers sound to his career culmination as a multiple Grammy winner, member of the Grand Ole Opry and recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
In its ringing review of the book, Publishers Weekly observed, “Stanley's plainspoken narrative is told in a rural diction as though he were sitting in the front seat of an old Ford headed down the mountain for his next show. His story is a comprehensive and endearing cornucopia of authentic mountain music, place, family, friends, rivals, faith, love, life, death and the road.”
Labeling Stanley’s narrative “a delightful, outspoken surprise,” Kirkus Reviews concluded, “He's at his best recalling his backwoods upbringing, the vicissitudes of the bluegrass road, the murder of one of his lead singers, the power of gospel music and old-time religion and the fast-vanishing South of his boyhood. An often tart yet affecting music memoir.”
Stanley continues to tour with his band, the Clinch Mountain Boys.
Written By: Norma Morris, Morris Public Relations