Bluegrass Pioneer, and other music links

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• Bluegrass Pioneer Ralph Stanley Dies At 89 -- "Ralph and his older brother Carter started out in the late 1940s as a duo...Stanley's sound came in part from the fact that he often sang in a minor key, while his band played in a happy-sounding major key."
• Guided by Voices: Finding Grace Through Shape-Note Singing -- "All freshmen were required to take a two-semester course, Introduction to Fine Arts, taught by Mary Oyer. She asked us to sing familiar Mennonite hymns with her..."
• Provident Music Group Announces Promotion of Ben Howard To EVP, Provident Films -- "Having worked among a variety of companies in the entertainment industry, Ben Howard has been living at the crossroads of art, commerce, and faith for 20 years. "
• Sacred Harp: Singing purely for the joy of singing -- "It’s weird and it’s beautiful. What else do you need to know?"
• Sacred Harp Singing Worship -- "Sacred Harp singing, involves, no instruments, no sacred text, just a song book and lines of sheet music. But not just any sheet music."
• Shapes of the Heart -- "And so the best place, then, for me to start this story, even though it is really about Sacred Harp music -- and I promise I will get us there, eventually -- is in a church basement in Tacoma..."
• Stairway to Heaven keeps its glory -- "...a 2014 lawsuit said the first two minutes of Stairway to Heaven bore similarity to Spirit's instrumental track Taurus."
  
• Why You Need to Sing Loudly in Church -- "Five reasons you have no choice but to sing in church on Sunday"
• “Wood Street”: On the sound and Psalm 137 references of the Sacred Harp song -- "That howling and misery, I think, reached people, and they thought: Yes, that’s the way it is."