Everything seems just a little more right in the country music world now that it’s been announced that The Stanley Brothers will be the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Paul and the Stanleys are great choices. I can’t imagine anyone will complain about either one of them.
I certainly won’t complain. It’s deserved, and helps address the backlog as opposed to lending to it. Great pick.
Great picks and a well deserved honor. I understand that picking one artist/act per year allows them to bask in the honor all their own. But they are not really addressing the backlog at this rate. It doesn’t have to be a mass induction, how about two or three a year in each category.
I totally agree they need to be inducting more people, especially in the Veteran’s Era to address the backlog. But The Stanley Brothers were one of the hopefuls that were being repeatedly passed over as opposed to a Modern Era inductee falling to the Veteran’s Era and being inducted immediately.
Either the Stanley Brothers or Maddox Brothers and rose were my first choices. Congratulations to the Stanley families.
Paul Overstreet was my prediction with his immense commercial success and industry awards as well as his success as a recording artist. He deserves it. Curly Putman, Sonny Throckmorton and Jimmy Webb deserve it as does Rodney Crowell.
I though Tim McGraw might get in after Kenny Chesney. I’m not really a fan of either and I hope Dwight gets in next year.
Fantastic and about time. Two songs immediately come to mind when I think of Ralph and Carter;
Rank Stranger for one. Absolute classic song and its been done by others after them, so much so that its IMO one of the greatest bluegrass songs of all time.
The other one is an instrumental called Clinch Mountain Backstep and according to Ralph Stanley it was being included in the Smithsonian Library. Killer banjo instrumental song that like Foggy Mountain Breakdown is a must learn for banjo players.
I was able to meet Ralph and watch him play a few times. Even late in his life he could still play clawhammer banjo pretty well.
Source: savingcountrymusic.com