Hi Michael Mullins, I just looked your group New Harvest Brothers up, yall are fantastic! I love that old country gospel singin. You guys every do any churches in the Somerset, KY area or do yall play on king of kings radio which is out of somerset? Yall would be great on there.

Agree 100% on the military service. I appreciate the benefit military discipline has brought to millions of men and women. Maybe for the first time in many young men's lives they are thinking clearly, and they have focus in their life.

As a Stanley I agree. Chilling. RIP Carter, Ralph & Daddy. Cumberland Gap.

I completely understand how you are trying to explain his “Style”. I was raised by the same mountain people. Most of us are Baptist. We Revere Jesus and in the hills and hollers where our mammaw’s and papaw’s were raised was very secluded deep in the Blue Ridge mountains. That “Style” as you referred to was simply the way of life and the circumstances that shaped them. We all love our daddy’s, but there’s something about our southern momma’s that can’t be explained. It’s a love like no other. They’d take us to church and in our mammaw and pappaw’s days the old Baptist Churches in the hills didn’t allow instruments to be played in the church house. They learned to sing the old hymns a cappella. So what you’re listening to is the Lonesome Mountain way. It’s beyond a rural upbringing. There was hardly anyone in those hills back when Ralph and Carter were being brought up. Life could be very lonesome, even for a young boy. Your nearest neighbor was usually a few hollers away from each other. Sometimes only a footpath through the woods would connect them and they’d usually walk far to visit neighbors. Or, if they were fortunate enough, the family had a mule to ride from place to place. The mule helped with plowing the fields too. Most of their days would be spent helping their mothers keep up the homestead while their daddy’s were off in a coal mine or sawing off timbers at a little sawmill. I know I said a mouthful, but any of us who had a pappaw or mammaw from Southwest Virginia, East Tennessee and down around Ashe County/Boone North Carolina areas will know exactly what I referring to about Ralph’s way of living. I can only imagine how much he missed his mother ,family, and home when the Army stationed him in Germany.

@@micah-hooka7275 interesting

​@@micah-hooka7275 Fantastic analogy! You hit the nail right on the head 👍 Micah, you should write a book about Southerners and the Southern way of life. I would definitely buy it.👍🎻🪕

is it a 33 1/3 ?

He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Lincoln Memorial University in 1976. From then on the band called him Dr. Ralph. Yale University gave him a second honorary Doctor of Music degree in 2014. I called him Doctor Ralph...I didn't ask for music or medical advice. In music and entertainment, you can call yourself whatever you want. Elvis wasn't a King, Cat Stephens isn't a feline, Snoop Dog isn't a dog, and Frank Sinatra wasn't a Chairman.

​@BlueRidgeStreaming you are correct

​@@jimmyb1456 NAILED it!👍

@@BlueRidgeStreaming I do not know how it could be explained any clearer than that.