Red Stanley
Musician · 1922–1987 · Fentress, Tennessee
Best known for
Fiddle
Red Stanley was a Tennessee-born fiddler whose seat in the Stanley Brothers' Clinch Mountain Boys placed him alongside Leslie Keith, Ralph Mayo, Chubby Anthony, Art Stamper, and Joe Meadows in one of the most-rotated fiddle chairs of postwar bluegrass.
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- Born Harold Oplis Stanley on May 4, 1922 in Fentress, Tennessee; died February 8, 1987 in Fentress.
- Bluegrass fiddler best known as a member of the Clinch Mountain Boys, the band of the Stanley Brothers (Carter and Ralph Stanley).
- Listed in The Stanley Brothers' personnel rosters among the band's fiddlers alongside Leslie Keith, Bobby Sumner, Les Woodie, Ralph Mayo, Chubby Anthony, Art Stamper, and Joe Meadows.
- Active during the Stanley Brothers' WCYB Bristol / "Farm and Fun Time" era of the 1950s and into the 1960s.
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The Stanley BrothersPlayed on recordings with The Stanley Brothers
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Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass BoysPlayed on recordings with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys
