Ralph Stanley Nominated for Grammy

Ralph Stanley’s Carter Family Homage Nominated for Folk Grammy

Win Would Give Musical Patriarch His Fourth Such Award

Nashville, TN (December 7, 2006) – Already a Grammy-winner in the country and bluegrass music categories, Grand Ole Opry star Ralph Stanley has just been nominated for Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy. The nomination is for his recent DMZ/Columbia Records collection, A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family.

Nominees for the 49^th annual Grammy Awards were announced today (Dec. 7) in Hollywood. The winners will be revealed Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, in a live three-and-a-half hour broadcast on CBS-TV from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

This year, Stanley will be competing against critically praised albums from Bruce Springsteen, Odetta, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy.

The 79-year-old Stanley won his first two Grammy Awards for 2001 when the soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (on which he appeared prominently) was voted Album of the Year and his chilling rendition of “O Death” from that same album was picked as Best Male Country Vocal Performance. (In the latter category, he was pitted against such heavyweights as Tim McGraw, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Ryan Adams.)

In 2002, Stanley’s collaboration with Jim Lauderdale—Lost In The Lonesome Pines—won the Best Bluegrass Album Grammy.

The nomination comes less than a month after Stanley was honored at the White House with the National Medal of Arts, a tribute for artistic excellence issued by the National Endowment for the Arts. President George Bush presented Stanley the award.