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It takes a community to write a biography. That much I learned during my ten-year effort to revisit the lives and music of two brothers from southwestern Virginia whose legacy will last many times longer than their twenty professional years together.
I am grateful to editor and folklorist Judith McCulloh for her early encouragement of this project. I owe much to Ralph Stanley, who granted me two interviews in 2003 and a third in 2005. Ralph’s nephews Carter and Bill Stanley spoke with me about their father, Carter Stanley. Their sisters, Doris Stanley Bradley and Jeanie Stanley Allinder, shared memories of their father and mother, as did their cousin Roy Sykes Jr.
Fred Stanley of Abingdon, Virginia, spoke with me about his father, Lee Stanley. The late Mike Seeger gave me permission to use interviews he conducted with Carter and Ralph Stanley in 1966. For recordings of these and Mike’s interview with fiddle player Leslie Keith, I am grateful to the staff of the University of North Carolina’s Southern Folklife Collection. The special collections room of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Public Library proved the perfect place to revise a manuscript.
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