"The Chicken Reel" - Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass, at his home in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, 1995. Credit: Marty Stuart, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The idea for this feature on the Country Music ...

"Bill Monroe, often called the father of Bluegrass music, established the classic Bluegrass sound - high, pure tenor voice, powerful mandolin solos against the banjo background. Bluegrass remains ...

"Bill Monroe had a great idea for [bluegrass]. He was looking for a new kind of music," Douglas says. "But he didn't have it until Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt played with him on the Opry [in 1945]." ...

Through the Kentucky School of Bluegrass & Traditional Music, Ellis had a two-year apprenticeship ... him into bluegrass - Bobby Osborne and Bill Monroe." At that time, Lewandowski was in the ...

the "Father of Bluegrass," mandolinist Bill Monroe, first introduced his new sound live on WWNC radio during the "Mountain ...

This past October, the newly renovated International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum opened to the public in western Kentucky’s Owensboro, less than an hour’s drive from Bill Monroe ...

State Road 135, Morgantown. Singer-songwriter Bill Monroe, remembered as the “Father of Bluegrass Music” began the festival in 1966. The Kentucky native died in 1996 at age 84.

He cites the "sass, speed and accuracy" of how Monroe's then newly constructed band played folk music ... with bluegrass picking and solos inspired by Dr. Ralph Stanley and Bill Monore." ...

As a young boy, he met bluegrass icon Bill Monroe, signing autographs after a ... a reference to the “hat acts” dominating country music at the time. Since 2002, Stuart has recorded and ...