Artist
The Stanley Brothers
The Stanley Brothers appears 2 times in our Bluegrass list, placing as high as No. 3. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 2
- Appears on
- Bluegrass
- Years
- 1951–1960
- Highest placing
- No. 3 in Bluegrass
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Man of Constant Sorrow
1951 · Columbia
Ranked No. 3 in Bluegrass
The high lonesome sound at its most severe — Ralph Stanley's tenor is not trying to be pleasant. An old ballad the Stanleys made permanently theirs.
Rank Stranger
1960
Ranked No. 5 in Bluegrass
A man returns home and recognises nobody. Bluegrass gospel at its most genuinely unsettling, and the harmony does most of the work.