Trade paperback with black photographic covers. Inscribed and signed by Dr. Ralph Stanley on frontis page. Flyer laid in from the concert in Charlotte, MI featuring Ralph Stanley. 9x6 with 273 pp including index.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music

Publisher

University of Illinois Press March 1995, USA

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

025206478X

ISBN 13

9780252064784

Binding

Trade Paperback

Condition

Used - Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

Signed

Signed

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Music

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Synopsis

John Wright's collection of interviews and stories about Ralph Stanley puts readers around a campfire at a bluegrass festival while old-timers weave yarns far into the night. Told by those who create, produce, stage, love, and virtually live for old-time mountain music, these tales come from the longtime coworkers, sidemen, promoters, friends, and others in the orbit of the music legend. The storytellers include a scholar who knew Stanley from the early days, the housewife who ran the Stanley Brothers Fan Club, and a souvenir seller for whom the discovery of Stanley's music was almost a religious experience.

Wright also uses these invaluable oral histories as a foundation to describe and evaluate Stanley's long career with the Clinch Mountain Boys and the development of his music after the death of his brother Carter. An appendix covers Ralph's prolific recording activity through the mid-1990s, including a breathtaking forty-five albums compromising more than 550 songs and tunes.

About the Author

John Wright is the John Evans Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Northwestern University and a columnist for Banjo Newsletter.

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