Live In Concert from NPR's All Songs Considered
Live In Concert from NPR's All Songs Considered
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Video: Ralph Stanley: Tiny Desk Concert
1 seconds Posted Oct 19, 2009 at 10:19 am.
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It's hard to overstate the impact that Dr. Ralph Stanley has had on bluegrass and old-time gospel music. Now 82, he sits atop a 60-year legacy of making music, both as the preeminent purveyor of clawhammer-style banjo picking and as a singer with one of the most widely imitated (but never duplicated) voices in country music. For this short Tiny Desk Concert, Stanley performs three classic songs, all a cappella: "Gloryland," "Turn Back, Turn Back" and "Amazing Grace."