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

by John Wright

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025206478X
• ISBN13: 9780252064784
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"