Latest Release
- 5 MAR 2024
- 20 Songs
- Uncle Penn · 1970
- Goodbye Old Pal, Vol. 2 · 2000
- RCA Country Legends: Bill Monroe · 2002
- Asteroid City (Original Soundtrack) · 1968
- Journey Through Country: Bill Monroe · 1970
- Appalachian Blueridge Fever · 1946
- The Very Best of Bluegrass Volume 6 · 1964
- Castle Studio 1950-1951 Complete Sessions, Vol. 1 (with the Bluegrass Boys) · 2017
- 100 Bill Monroe's Classics · 1964
- Old Time Country · 1959
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- The peerless father of bluegrass.
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About Bill Monroe
One of the giants of 20th-century music, Kentucky-born Bill Monroe was the undisputed creator of bluegrass. His mandolin-picking and plaintive tenor are among the genre's most moving and distinctive sounds. His band, the Bluegrass Boys, provided the launching pad for innumerable bluegrass careers, graduating such luminaries as Flatt & Scruggs, Reno & Smiley, and Peter Rowan. Though his period of greatest popularity was the '40s and '50s, Monroe was a tireless performer who continued to play live into the '90s, even after treatment for cancer and a double bypass operation. By the time of his death in 1996, he had been crowned several times over as the king of bluegrass and proved a seminal inspiration to several generations of musicians.
- HOMETOWN
- Rosine, KY, United States
- BORN
- 13 September 1911
- GENRE
- Country