Stanley Brothers Commemoration Extended

Originally planned for December 1st, the day that marks the passing of Carter Stanley in 1966, Tom T. and Dixie Hall's record company, Good Home Grown Music has now called for an extended celebration of the Stanley Brothers and their contribution to Mountain Music.

STANLEY BROTHERS ENTER AMERICA'S OLD TIME COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME

"To most folks, Big Spraddle Creek, Virginia, probably doesn't mean much, however to those who have an enduring respect and admiration for bluegrass music today, or even an abiding admiration for those who made it possible for us to 'remember' what America's musical culture was all about before it became the property of giant corporations and greed interests, it's one of the most important geographical landmarks in the United States."

Bob Everhart, the president of the National Traditional Country Music Association, is announcing to the world that the Stanley Brothers, who were born in Big Spraddle Creek, are entering America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame, located in the Pioneer Music Museum, the largest upper Midwest institute dedicated to country and rural music of America's past. 

"Carter and Ralph Stanley were, and still are, the very epitome of what America's old-time music was all about." Everhart said.   "Preservationists of hand-me-down music, both of the Stanley's can be considered two of our finest 'savers' of mountain music, old-time music, all of the musical influences that eventually became bluegrass music, and inevitably country music.