Carter Glen Stanley was a bluegrass music lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitar player.
10 Facts About Carter Stanley
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Carter Stanley formed The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys band with his younger brother Ralph Stanley.
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The son of Lucy and Lee Stanley, Carter grew up in rural southwestern Virginia.
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Carter Stanley played guitar and sang lead while Ralph played banjo and sang with a strong, high tenor voice.
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Carter Stanley composed more than 100 songs, and many of them remain standards in the bluegrass genre.
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Carter Stanley had a particular knack for deceptively simple lyrics that portrayed strong emotion.
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The brothers broke up in 1951, and Carter Stanley briefly played guitar with Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys.
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Carter Stanley died six weeks later on December 1,1966.
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Carter Stanley was buried in accordance with his request on Smith Ridge, near Coeburn, Virginia.
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In 1992 Carter Stanley was inducted posthumously into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor.