21. Untitled Document bill monroe, Father of Bluegrass, Bluegrass, Country Music, Kentucky Bluegrass, Bluegrass Music, famous musicians, Legendary Musicians, Gibson Co. http://www.billmonroe.com/

Home Biography Guestbook Photo Album ... Visit the Official Web Site of James Monroe THE FATHER OF BLUEGRASS Welcome to the official Bill Monroe web site. Be sure to sign our guestbook! Every now and then, someone comes through this world touching the lives of millions of people. Some with words they speak, some with the life they live, some with style and class, some with kindness and generosity, some with written word and music. I feel extremely proud to be the son of a man who possessed all of these qualities. "I never wanted to copy any man. I was determined to carve out a music of my own. Bluegrass is wonderful. I'm glad I originated it." Bill Monroe Help honor Bill Monroe, click here for details. You are visitor number: 28392 Last Modified August 13, 2003 Site Designed and Hosted by Nashville Netlinks, Inc.

22. Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom - Festivals & Events From Bean Blossom, IN Bluegrass, gospel, country festivals and happenings at Bean Blossom, Indiana, with event ticket prices, news flashes, history, awards, pictures, guest book, chat room, gift shop, camping and lodging information. Links to artists, festivals, clubs, associations, magazines, and the American Red Cross National Disaster Relief Fund. With a dedication to the memory of bill monroe, 'The Father of Bluegrass,' and to the legacy of the style of music he left behind. http://www.beanblossom.com/

Last updated on May 12, 2004 Contact Information General Information Camping/Lodging BG Hall Of Fame/ Gift Shop ... Bean Blossom History Main Page Bean Blossom Awards Bluegrass News Flash Bean Blossom Pictures Bean Blossom In The News ... Guestbook Bean Blossom chosen as a Local Legacy Bill Monroe Commemorative Postage Stamp - Act NOW! Click here to sign-up for our mailing list. Click the button above to vote for our page as one of the top 100 bluegrass web sites. Vote for our site at Active Lynx. Click HERE to vote for this page as a Starting Point Hot Site. Server space provided by ADDR.COM Old-Tyme Music Festival May 13th-15th, 2004 38th Annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival The oldest, continuous running bluegrass festival in the world! June 13th-19th, 2004 "O Come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!" Psalms 95:1 Modern accomodations-clean restrooms and hot showers. The hillbilly music tradition goes back hundreds of years, but it was Monroe, with his high-mountain tenor and unique mandolin playing, who made bluegrass what it is today. In 1967 Bill Monroe founded the first Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, called a "

23. BILL MONROE - The Father Of Bluegrass A brief biography from the American Music Archives. http://www.eyeneer.com/America/Genre/Folk.bluegrass/Profiles/monroe.html

BILL MONROE The Father Of Bluegrass William Smith Monroe was born September 13, 1911 and grew up on his family's 650 acre farm just outside Rosine, Kentucky, where his father, James "Buck" Monroe, farmed, operated a sawmill and mined coal; his mother, Malissa Vandiver Monroe, raised poultry and tended to her husband and eight children. Of the six Monroe boys, Bill was the youngest, eight years the junior of his nearest sibling, Charlie, and between the sizable age gap between him and the rest of his brothers and sisters, and the fact that his extremely poor eyesight prevented him from playing most sports (especially his favorite, baseball), Bill spent a considerable amount of time on his own. Quite early on, he became fascinated by the music which abounded in the Monroe home - the old-time ballads sung by his accordion-playing mother, and the wonderful fiddle tunes he heard whenever Malissa's brother Pendleton would come by for a visit. Bill loved the sound of the fiddle and longed to learn how to play it, but that was his brother Birch's instrument. Guitar was his next choice, but Charlie was the guitarist in the family. That left Bill with the only other stringed instrument in the house - a mandolin. If he learned it, he figured, at least he could play along Charlie and Birch. And so, at age ten, he began to teach himself, picking out melodies he heard on the fiddle and learning to keep a rhythm. As he got better, Charlie let him play his guitar, and it was on that guitar that Bill made his first public appearances when he was barely a teenager, accompanying Uncle Pen at square dances around the country and sharing in the sheer joy that his uncle got out of entertaining.

24. Bill Monroe Tribute Evan Reilly's personal tribute to the Father of Blue Grass Music . http://world.std.com/~ereilly/monroe.html

William Smith Monroe September 13, 1911 - September 9, 1996 My Introduction To Blue Grass. by Evan N. Reilly Years later, when I was more of a master of Monroe's chosen instrument, I was on the bus with Bill and, again, had my mandolin. But I was playing tunes for him, now. I played "Bill's Dream" and a far way look came into his eyes. He said that he hadn't hear d that tune in years and asked me if he had ever told me the story about that tune. Bill then proceeded to tell me the story behind the writing of the tune; he had had a dream one night that one of his hunting dogs had fallen into an old dry well on the farm. The next day, one of the dogs did fall into a well and Bill wrote the tune to remember the event. These events are some the highlights of my relationship with Bill Monroe. I have had the opportunity to play with him on stage, as well as off-stage. Several times, he exposed the fierce, driving force of his teaching to me, putting his mandolin in my face and playing a passage until I got it right. It was as if I had been locked in his grip (and his grip is another tale) and held hostage to his musical vision. Monroe's musical legacy will be felt wherever the fiddle and banjo get together with the guitar and bass, wherever the mandolin beats out the stark, powerful outlines of Monroe's music.

25. Roughstock's History Of Country Music - Bill Monroe & Bluegrass The virtual base on which the whole of bluegrass music rests, William Smith (bill) monroe was born at Rosine, Kentucky, on September 13, 1911, the youngest of eight children. Brother Charlie was next http://www.roughstock.com/history/bgrass.html

The virtual base on which the whole of bluegrass music rests, William Smith (Bill) Monroe was born at Rosine, Kentucky, on September 13, 1911, the youngest of eight children. Brother Charlie was next youngest, having been born eight years earlier. This gap, coupled with Bill's poor eyesight, inhibited the youngest son from many of the usual play activities and gave him an introverted nature which carried through into later life. Aside from his musical family, one of Monroe's early influences was a black musician from Rosine, Arnold Schultz. Bill would gig with him and rated him a fine musician with an unrivalled feel for the blues. At this time he also started to hear gramophone records featuring such performers as Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers. In 1934, Radio WLS in Chicago, for whom the three brothers (Birch on fiddle, Charlie on guitar, and Bill on mandolin) had been working on a semi-professional basis, offered them full-time employment. Birch decided to give up music, but Charlie and Bill reforemed as the Monroe Brothers. In 1938, they went their separate ways. Bill formed the Kentuckians and moved to Radio KARK, Atlanta Georgia, where the first of the Blue Grass Boys line-ups was evolved. Bill also began to sing lead and to take mandolin solos rather than just remaining part of the general sound. In 1939, he auditioned for the Opry and George Hay was impressed enough to sign him. By 1945, Monroe's style had undergone several changes. Most notable was the addition of Earl Scruggs, with a driving banjo style, putting the final, distinctive seal on Monroe's bluegrass sound. Flatt and Scruggs remained with Bill until 1948. Among Monroe's best known songs from the period is "Blue Moon of Kentucky." Included here is another of Monroe's hits: "I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky."

26. Welcome To The Official Bill Monroe Foundation Website Welcome to the Official Home of the bill monroe Foundation. There are pictures, background information, songs, BMF items for you http://www.billmonroefoundation.com/

Welcome to the Official Home of the Bill Monroe Foundation There are pictures, background information, songs, BMF items for you to purchase, and a hospitality that can only be found in the heart of Kentucky. Come on in and visit. We're glad to share our dream with you! Pick here to continue... * this site requires a Java compliant browser *

27. Bob Dylan Who's Who monroe, bill. 1922 1996. Father of Bluegrass music, composer of "Blue Moon Of Kentucky". Bob Dylan on bill monroe in the November 1987 Rolling Stone interview by Kurt Loder LODER Do you still listen to the artists you started out with? http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/who/m/monroebill.html

Monroe, Bill Father of Bluegrass music, composer of "Blue Moon Of Kentucky". Another Legend of Country Music by Alanna Nash

28. Bear Family Records German major independent country and bluegrass label that has released boxed sets by many of the early bluegrass greats. bill monroe, Flatt Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers, Jim Jesse among them. The European powerhouse also has reissues of classic country music. http://www.bear-family.de/

BEAR FAMILY RECORDS The world's greatest record label for American vintage country music and rock'n'roll, German and International oldies, chansons, jazz and cabaret: in a class of its own. in English Besides the releases from our own record labels, you may choose from a variety of more than 30,000 different items from the worlds finest music catalogs - most titles ship within 24 hours. in English CROSSCUT RECORDS The whole world of blues - Europe's leading modern blues label. in English/Deutsch auf Deutsch auf Deutsch auf Deutsch/English

29. Bluegrass Australia -Bill Monroe - Personal Reflections Personal remembrances by fans and fellow musicians. http://bluegrass.org.au/Magazine/monroe/index.cfm

Bill Monroe - personal reflections Home Your State Events ACT NSW ... Hawkesbury Quotable Quotes: If I'd known I was gonna live this long I would have taken better care of myself. (Charlie Waller to David Blood) New Releases Today's featured new release CD Randy Waller - Randy Waller (Lendel Records) PLUS: More of the latest new CDs from Australia and overseas. Latest News Davidson Brothers release first Video Clip Maybelle Carter's Guitar For Sale: $575,000 Europeans Head for Voorthuizen in May South Australian Musicians Head for Nashville ... More News items in full >>> Anniversaries this week Mike Snider Peter Yarrow (1938) - of Peter, Paul and Mary Bangs Tapscott - Curmudgeon, linguist, on-line spellchecker and inventer of the term TIFKAD. (The Instrument Formerly Known as Dobro) Andy Griffith Hazel Dickens Larry Perkins Van Stoneman (died this day in 1995) John Hartford (died this day in 2001) - Born 28 Dec 1937. Eldred Hill Andrew Clermont (1961) - Australian, Astonishingly inventive fiddler, mando player, guitar picker, singer, full time musician, and Sydney Tower look-alike.

30. About Us bill monroe b. Rosine, Kentucky, September 13, 1911; d. September 9, 1996 Elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame® 1970. As singer http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/inductees/bill_monroe.html

Home About Us Visitor Information Exhibits ... Sidebar Content Bill Monroe b. Rosine, Kentucky, September 13, 1911; d. September 9, 1996 Elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame® 1970 As singer, songwriter, bandleader, showman, and instrumentalist, no individual is so closely identified with an American musical style as Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music. For more than half a century, he shaped bluegrass with his forceful mandolin playing; high, lonesome singing; and mastery of his band, the Blue Grass Boys. In doing so, he gave older country sounds new life; gave the mandolin a new role as a lead instrument in country, pop, and rock; and set standards for musicians as diverse as the Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, George Jones, and rock star Jerry Garcia. William Smith Monroe was the youngest of eight children born to of James Buchanan “Buck” Monroe, a prosperous farmer who also ran timber and mining operations, and Melissa Monroe, who kept house and helped pass along dance steps and British-American folksongs to her children. Other musical influences of Bill’s youth include the old-time fiddling of his uncle Pendleton “Uncle Pen” Vandiver and the bluesy guitar playing of Arnold Shultz, a black musician with whom Bill and Uncle Pen sometimes worked local dances. Monroe lost both his parents by the age of sixteen, and subsequently he followed some of his brothers north to the Chicago area, where he labored in a Sinclair Oil refinery, performed as a square dancer on Chicago’s WLS National Barn Dance, and sang and played mandolin with brothers Charlie (who played guitar) and Birch (who fiddled) on local radio. Birch soon left the trio, and Bill and Charlie decided to pursue music full time as the Monroe Brothers, first gaining exposure on stations in Iowa and Nebraska.

31. Half Day Bluegrass Band Home page for a Chicagobased bluegrass band playing the music of bill monroe, Stanleys, Flatt and Scruggs, and many others. Schedule, biographies and photos. http://www.halfdaybluegrass.com/

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32. MusicMoz - Bands And Artists: M: Monroe, Bill bill monroe. From United States Style Bluegrass Years September 13, 1911 September 9, 1996. Top Bands and Artists M monroe, bill (68). http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/M/Monroe,_Bill/

about submit item become an editor feedback Bill Monroe From: United States Style: Bluegrass Years: September 13, 1911 - September 9, 1996 Printable Factsheet With Releases Track Chart the entire directory this category Top Bands and Artists M : Monroe, Bill Singer, mandolinist, songwriter and bandleader Bill Monroe is widely considered the "Father of Bluegrass Music". The style takes its name from that of Monroe's band, the Blue Grass Boys, which in turn was named for Monroe's native state of Kentucky. More Discography Links Discography Albums: Knee Deep In Blue Grass I Saw The Light The Great Bill Monroe Mr. Bluegrass ... Live - Volume 1 Singles: Dog House Blues/Katy Hill No Letter In The Mail/Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord Mule Skinner Blues/Six White Horses Blue Yodel No. 7/In The Pines I Wonder If You Feel The Way I Do/Tennessee Blues The Coupon Song/Orange Blossom Special Shake My Mother's Hand For Me/Were You There? Honky Tonk Swing/Back Up And Push True Life Blues/Footprints In The Snow Kentucky Waltz/Rocky Road Blues How Will I Explain About You?/Blue Grass Special Will You Be Loving Another Man?

33. MusicMoz - Bands And Artists: M: Monroe, Bill: Discography The RCA sessions have been collected on several releases, most recently on The Essential bill monroe and the monroe Brothers . http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/M/Monroe,_Bill/Discography/

about submit item become an editor feedback the entire directory only in this category Top Bands and Artists M Monroe, Bill : Discography Monroe's first recordings under his own name were sixteen tracks recorded for RCA in 1940 and 1941. He recorded for Columbia between 1945 and 1949; this period included seventeen tracks recorded with a lineup that helped define the new music called "bluegrass": Earl Scruggs on banjo, Lester Flatt on guitar and lead vocal, Chubby Wise on fiddle, and "Cedric Rainwater" (Howard Watts) on bass. In 1950 he signed with Decca and stayed with that label, and its successor, MCA, for the rest of his career. The RCA sessions have been collected on several releases, most recently on "The Essential Bill Monroe and the Monroe Brothers". The Columbia sessions are represented on "The Essential Bill Monroe, 1945-1949", a 2-disc set; the single disc "16 Gems" collects highlights of this period. The Decca recordings are collected on many compilations; the three Bear Family boxed sets offer all the studio recordings from 1950 through 1979, and are highly recommended for completists. The Music of Bill Monroe: 1936-1994 is a good four-disc overview of his entire career, from the Monroe Brothers to his last recordings.

34. Bluegrass Lyrics Home Page Provides bluegrass song lyrics and information for traditional bluegrass enthusiasts. The artists are bill monroe, the Stanleys, Flatt and Scruggs, and others. http://www.bluegrasslyrics.com/

Search Bluegrass Lyrics... Bill Monroe Flatt and Scruggs Stanley Brothers Jimmy Martin ... Contact Welcome to Bluegrass Lyrics.Com! Bluegrass Lyrics is dedicated to providing lyrics and resources to traditional bluegrass enthusiasts, and we take pride in maintaining a site that is accurate, informative, and easy to use. Bluegrass Lyrics.com is and always will be entirely free and non-commercial. Let us know if you want to contribute, or have any questions or comments. We've recently redesigned the site, and added lots of new lyrics and links. We've also made an attempt to correct all the mistakes :-) Check out the folios at left... We will continue to add songs and features to the site as time allows, and we appreciate all your feedback. What's New: I added a whole slew of songs - there are now nearly 4 times as many as a few months ago. Keep checking back for more!! A new site for friends and neighbors "The Abbott Family" - devoted to teaching music by ear, "family style"! Check it out at Playingbyear.com

35. Bill Monroe Stamp Campaign Dedicated to getting bill monroe on a US postage stamp. Includes campaign background, address for writing letters of support, and guestbook. http://www.billmonroestamp.org/

Voice Your Support for a Bill Monroe Commemorative Stamp! Image courtesy of Grassware Home About the Campaign About Bill Monroe ... Links Would you like to see Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music, honored by a commemorative United States Postage Stamp? If you would, the time to act is NOW, and all you have to do is to write and mail a letter. Each year, the United States Postal Service considers the issuance of approximately 25 commemorative postage stamps. Under its guidelines , the honoree must have been deceased for at least 10 years, which in Bill Monroe's case will be September 9, 2006. The 95th anniversary of his birth, September 13, 2006, which is only 4 days later, would be a logical date for the issuance of the stamp. The guidelines further recommend that the process be started 3 years before the issuance year, which is 2003. The first step is for a citizens' committee to select, and narrow down to approximately 25, the worthy nominees for each year. This they do by considering letters, cards, petitions, etc., sent to them by the public at large. After that, the committee considers art work and other details for the stamp. Because Bill Monroe's music is appreciated worldwide, nominations from outside the USA would be very appropriate. If you would like to participate in this effort on behalf of a great American musical genius, write your letter to: Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee c/o Stamp Development US Postal Service 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Room 5670

36. Monroe, Bill --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia monroe, bill Britannica Student Encyclopedia. MLA style monroe, bill. Britannica Student Encyclopedia. 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=336886&query=william smith o'brien&ct=e

37. CenturyTel Provides communications services including local, long distance, Internet access and data services in 22 states. Headquartered in monroe, Louisiana. Includes service and product information, online bill management and news. http://www.centurytel.com

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38. Sheet Music Plus - Bill Monroe Search Results Browse items by bill monroe at Sheet Music Plus, world's largest retailer of sheet music, songbooks, songs, tabs and more. Sheet Music Plus has over 366 000 sheet music titles including classical http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp_artbrowseresults.html?artist=Bill Monroe

39. Monroe, Bill --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia continued. monroe, bill Britannica Student Encyclopedia. Additional references about monroe, bill. MLA style monroe, bill. Britannica Student Encyclopedia. http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=336887&query=monroe, bill&ct=ebi

40. Orange County Real Estate - Bill & Diana Monroe, And Judy Harmer Homes for sale in North, South, and Central Orange County. http://www.ahomebuyersrealty.com

Area Homes for Sale National Homes for Sale National Homes for Sale Mortgage Rate Update ... Contact Us Helping Buyers Realize The American Dream Successful Homebuyers Realty, Inc. 2152 Dupont Drive, Suite 214 Irvine, CA 92612 Direct: 714 694-1199 Office: 949 955-0641 Fax: 714 694-1329 BillandDiana@ahomebuyersrealty.com For site-related questions, please contact CustomerService@Realigent.com Lightning Websites by Realigent

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