Singer Ralph Stanley’s current tour was supposed to be a farewell. But not anymore.

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Cost, in dollars, of the first banjo Ralph Stanley’s mother bought for him in the early ’40s. Also, five is the number of strings on the instrument, which he learned on his own.

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Day out of the Army in 1946 that he started singing with his brother Carter Stanley, who had been playing with Roy Sykes and the Blue Ridge Mountain Boys.

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