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 Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:00 am |
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(Wall Street Journal) - Ralph Stanley, the hillbilly (his
term) musician best known for his 2002 Grammy-winning
rendition of "O Death" in the Coen brothers movie "O
Brother Where Art Thou?," may be 82 years old and play
songs nearly as ancient as the southwest Virginia hills
where he was born (and still lives). But after all these
years his tongue is still sharp, as he shows in "Man of
Constant Sorrow," (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/ManSorrow ) a
memoir that may send some cowboy hats spinning along
Nashville's Music Row. Dr. Stanley, as he likes to be known
— the doctorate is honorary, from Lincoln Memorial
University in Harrogate, Tenn. — dispenses a few lashes
along with his rollicking account of 60 years as a banjo-
picking bluegrass performer, though none will do lasting
harm..
Continued: http://xrl.us/ManSorrow2 |
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