[ePub] The Cohousing Handbook: Building a Place for Community by Kelly ScottHanson; Chris ScottHanson at Arts-Photography

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A giant of American music opens the book on his wrenching professional and personal journeys; paying tribute to the vanishing Appalachian culture that gave him his voice. He was there at the beginning of bluegrass. Yet his music; forged in the remote hills and hollows of Southwest Virginia; has even deeper roots. In Man of Constant Sorrow; Dr. Ralph Stanley gives a surprisingly candid look back on his long and incredible career as the patriarch of old-time mountain music. Marked by Dr. Ralph Stanley?s banjo picking; his brother Carter?s guitar playing; and their haunting and distinctive harmonies; the Stanley Brothers began their career in 1946 and blessed the world of bluegrass with hundreds of classic songs; including ?White Dove;? ?Rank Stranger;? and what has become Dr. Ralph?s signature song; ?Man of Constant Sorrow.? Carter died in 1966 after years of alcohol abuse; but Dr. Ralph Stanley carried on and is still at the top of his game; playing to audiences across the country today at age eighty-one. Rarely giving interviews; he now grants fans the book they have been waiting for; filled with frank recollections; from his boyhood of dire poverty in the Appalachian coalfields to his early musical success with his brother; to years of hard traveling on the road with the Clinch Mountain Boys; to the recent; jubilant revival of a sound he helped create. The story of how a musical art now popular around the world was crafted by two brothers from a dying mountain culture; Man of Constant Sorrow captures a life harmonized with equal measures of tragedy and triumph.