By The Associated Press, June 23, 2016
With his family, Stanley popularized Man of Constant Sorrow, O Death and several other songs
Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, died Thursday. He was 89.
Stanley died at his home in Sandy Ridge, Virginia, because of difficulties from skin cancer, publicist Kirt Webster said.
