The Stanley Brothers

The Stanley Brothers
Label of the Stanley Brothers' single "I Hear My Savior Calling"
Background information
Origin	Dickenson County, Virginia, U.S.
Genres	bluegrass Appalachian folk country gospel
Years active	1946–1966
Labels	Rich-R-Tone Columbia Mercury King Starday Wango Rimrock Old Homestead
Past members	Carter Stanley Ralph Stanley

The Stanley Brothers were an American bluegrass duo of singer-songwriters and musicians, made up of brothers Carter Stanley (August 27, 1925 – December 1, 1966) and Ralph Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016).^[1] Ralph and Carter performed as The Stanley Brothers with their band, The Clinch Mountain Boys, from 1946 to 1966. Ralph kept the band name when he continued as a solo artist after Carter's death, from 1967 until his own death in 2016. Thomas Goldsmith: This article continues to state that “many years later,” Ralph started playing again after Carter’s death. This is not just wrong, but absurdly wrong. As seen in many accounts of Ralph’s career, he essentially never stopped performing after Carter’s death. He played some remaining Stanley Brothers dates, then moved forward with the Clinch Mountain Boys, performing until not long before his own death.