Goins (bass, guitar) Larry Sparks (Lead vocalist, guitar) Roy Lee Centers (Lead vocalist, guitar) Ricky Skaggs (mandolin, fiddle) Keith Whitley (Lead vocalist, guitar) Charlie Sizemore (Lead vocalist, guitar) Hook n Beans {Buddy Moore } lead singer- guitar Ricky Lee (guitar) Junior Blankenship (guitar) Kenneth Davis (guitar) Renfro Proffit (guitar) Ron Thomason (mandolin) Steve Sparkman (banjo) James Alan Shelton (guitar) Sammy Adkins (Lead vocalist, guitar) Todd Meade (fiddle) Ralph 'Hank' Smith (Lead guitar) Ernie Thacker (Lead vocalist, guitar, mandolin) John Rigsby (mandolin) Dewey Brown (fiddle),(Vocals) Jimmy Cameron (Bass), (Vocals) Audey Ratliff (bass) Ralph Stanley II (Lead vocalist, guitar) Nathan Stanley (mandolin, Lead vocalist, guitar) James Price (fiddle) Randall Joe Hibbitts (bass) Mitchell Van Dyke (banjo) Jarrod Church (banjo) Alex Hibbitts (Mandolin) Jimmie Vaughan (Rhythm Guitar, Vocals) Political career Around 1970, he ran for Clerk of Court and Commissioner of Revenue in Dickenson County only to state this: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Stanley's work was featured in the very popular 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, in which he sings the Appalachian dirge "O Death". The soundtrack's producer was T-Bone Burnett. Stanley said the following about working with Burnett: With that song, Stanley won a 2002 Grammy Award in the category of Best Male Country Vocal Performance. "That put the icing on the cake for me," he said. "It put me in a different category." Later life He was known in the world of bluegrass music by the popular title, "Dr. Ralph Stanley", having been awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Lincoln Memorial University of Harrogate, Tennessee in 1976. Stanley was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1992 and in 2000, and became the first person to be inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in the third millennium. He joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night cast CD Christmas Time's A Comin''', performing "Christmas Time's A Comin'" with the cast on the CD released on Sonlite and MGM/UA; it was one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers. He was featured in the Josh Turner hit song "Me and God" released in 2006. In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. On November 10, 2007, Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys performed at a rally for presidential candidate John Edwards in Des Moines, Iowa, just before the Democratic Party's