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The Birth of Bluegrass: Bill Monroe

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The Birth of Bluegrass

In the 1930s bluegrass music came into being from the vison of Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs and other stringband instrumentalists. Bluegrass combined the keening austerity of Appalachia with the exuberance of hot jazz.

Bill Monroe once described bluegrass music:

"It's got a hard drive to it. It's Scotch bagpipes and old time fiddlin'. It's Methodist and Holiness and Baptist. It's blues and jazz and it has a high lonesome sound. It's plain music that tells a good story. It's played from my heart to your heart, and it will touch you."

Bluegrass Music Suggestions:

Bill Monroe:	Flatt & Scruggs:
Bluegrass (1950 - 1958) (Box) Columbia Historic Edition Live at the Opry Essential Bill Monroe and the Monroe Brothers	Columbia Historic Edition The Complete Mercury Sessions Country Music Hall of Fame 1985
The Stanley Brothers:	Jimmy Martin:
20 Bluegrass Originals Angel Band: The Classic Mercury Recordings All Time Greatest Hits	The King of Bluegrass 20 Greatest Hits One Woman Man
Del McCoury Band:	Alison Krauss + Union Station:
Del and the Boys The Cold Hard Facts The Blue Side of Town	New Favorite So Long, So Wrong Live

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