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	Bill Monroe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bill Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) developed the style of country music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for his home state of Kentucky.
		Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader.
		Bill Monroe was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1971, the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor as an inaugural inductee in 1991, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as an "early influence") in 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Monroe (346 words)

	VH1.com : Bill Monroe : Biography
		Bill assembled his own band with the intention of creating a new form of country that melded old-time string bands with blues and challenged the instrumental abilities of the musicians.
		Monroe debuted on the Grand Ole Opry in October of 1939, singing "New Muleskinner Blues." It was a performance that made Monroe's career as well as established the new genre of bluegrass.
		Monroe released his first album, Knee Deep in Bluegrass, in 1958, the same year he appeared on the country singles chart with "Scotland"; the number 27 single was his first hit in over a decade.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/monroe_bill/bio.jhtml (1414 words)

	Bill Monroe @ peermusic - The Independent Major
		Bill Monroe isn't just the "Father of Bluegrass"; he also is the source of the genre's very name.
		Bill, who was a tenor to brother Charlie's lead vocals in the Monroe Brothers, was now singing on his own.
		Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys grew in confidence and stature during the war years.
	www.peermusic.com /artistpage/Bill_Monroe.html (555 words)

	Bill Monroe
		The youngest of eight children, Monroe was relegated to the mandolin by his guitar- and fiddle-playing siblings.
		So compelling was Monroe's vision, in fact, that countless fans and musicians have accepted it as the real thing, taken it for their very own, and allowed it to change their lives.
		Bill Monroe was, by all accounts, a complex man. Reportedly right-fisted in business matters (a common trait among those who came of age in hard times), he could be generous to friends and strangers alike.
	www.banjonews.com /BNlhtml/Ira_Monroe.html (1020 words)

	Kentucky State Bluegrass Song Blue Moon of Kentucky Bill Monroe William Smith Monroe
		By 1970, Bill Monroe was widely recognized as the "Father of Bluegrass." And in that year, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the next year into the Nashville Songwriters Association International Hall of Fame and more was to come...
		Bill Monroe died from a stroke on September 9, 1996, in Springfield, Tennessee.
		Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky" was adopted as the official bluegrass song of Kentucky in 1988.
	www.netstate.com /states/symb/song/ky_blue_moon_of_ky.htm (599 words)

	BILL MONROE
		Bill Monroe was born in Rosine Kentucky in September 1911.
		After this recording, Bill had estbalished a new country-blues style which he called bluegrass and he firmly established the genre with such performances as "Rocky road blues", "Blue yodel #3", "My old pal", "Kentucky waltz" and "Blue moon of Kentucky" in the 1940s.
		Monroe was never one to compromise what he believed in and didn’t want to make his music into a form of pop.
	www.webspawner.com /users/BillMonroe (597 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bill Monroe (Music: Popular And Jazz, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Bill Monroe (William Smith Monroe), 1911–96, country singer, musician, and songwriter, often called the "father of bluegrass," b.
		Rosine, Ky. A mandolin and guitar player, Monroe founded the Blue Grass Boys in 1938, and the group began playing country and western music that mixed rural string-playing, folk ballads, blues, and white gospel–a style later known as bluegrass.
		Featuring Monroe's high tenor voice and virtuoso mandolin along with the fiddle, bass, guitar, and banjo, the band became known for its beautiful harmonies and driving rhythms.
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		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 Malissa Monroe, who kept house and helped pass along dance steps and British-American folksongs to her children.
		Monroe’s late-1940s recordings for Columbia, made with Scruggs and Lester Flatt, his singer-guitarist at the time, are now widely regarded as definitive.
		Monroe made his band sound higher, bluer, and more lonesome than ever, with help from singer-guitarist Jimmy Martin and other expert sidemen, some of whom (including Martin) later launched bluegrass bands of their own.
	www.countrymusichalloffame.com /inductees/bill_monroe.html (1176 words)

	BILL MONROE
		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.
		Bill loved the sound of the fiddle and longed to learn how to play it, but that was his brother Birch's instrument.
		In a session that lasted just two and a quarter hours, Bill and his band recorded eight songs that reflected their leader's panoramic vision of what country string band music should be - a vision that deeply revered past traditions even as it hurtled eagerly in to the uncharted territories of the future.
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	Bill Monroe Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Bill Monroe turned 18, he moved to East Chicago, Indiana, where his brothers Birch and Charlie were working at an oil refinery.
		Bill also got a job at the Sinclair oil refinery and began playing with his brothers in a country string band at night.
		Bill Monroe released his first album, Knee Deep in Bluegrass, in 1958, the same year he appeared on the country singles chart with "Scotland; " the number 27 single was his first hit in over a decade.
	www.truecountry.com /monroebio.shtml (1388 words)

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		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.
		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.
		Monroe, the artist, never left out the confrontation with, and realization of death in his music; it was the dark coloring that tinged the edges of his Blue Grass music.
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	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.
		Bill formed the Kentuckians and moved to Radio KARK, Atlanta Georgia, where the first of the Blue Grass Boys line-ups was evolved.
		Bill Monroe was elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1970.
	www.roughstock.com /history/bgrass.html (933 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Bill Monroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Monroe was orphaned during his adolescence, and Vanderver functioned both as guardian and teacher, instructing his nephew in the intricacies of old-time fiddle music.
		Although Monroe initially played guitar behind Uncle Pen's fiddling at local dances during the mid-1920s, his emergence as a professional musician coincided with his switch to the mandolin and the formation of a band with brothers Charlie (on guitar) and Birch (on fiddle) in 1927.
		Although Monroe retained a contract with Decca Records and a permanent spot on the Grand Ole Opry,; during the 1950s and much of the 1960s his position as a performer was largely overshadowed by that of Flatt and Scruggs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200852 (967 words)

	Kentucky's State Bluegrass Song: "Blue Moon of Kentucky" - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
		Bill Monroe was born in 1911 in Rosine, Kentucky.
		Monroe blended these two styles into his own, a combination of the raw tonalities of Negro blues and the "lonesome" sound of the mountain modal ballads.
		Monroe's innovative style was characterized by playing single strained notes, sharp sustained tremelos, bouncy rhythms, and syncopated timing of the old square dance.
	www.kdla.ky.gov /resources/KYBGSong.htm (1614 words)

	New foundation in Kentucky wins bidding for the worn mandolin that changed Bill Monroe's style and inspired him to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Monroe has long been widely acknowledged as the father of bluegrass, perhaps the only American musician who can be clearly identified as the inventor of a specific popular musical genre.
		Monroe's F-5 Master model, serial number 73987, is particularly important because he played it almost exclusively for more than 50 years, because its design profoundly affected the sound of bluegrass and because it was a particularly fine instrument.
		Monroe's new instrument provided a swinging chop to the beat, while his instrumental breaks on fiddle tunes took on a new assertiveness and speed.
	www.tennessean.com /local/archives/01/04/04478453.shtml (1072 words)

	Bill Monroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A 45-minute trip to bluegrass heaven, these 17 songs combine the talents of two unparalleled musical forces: Bill Monroe, the inventor of bluegrass, master of the mandolin, and owner of a bone-chilling, mountain tenor voice; and Doc Watson, the flatpicking genius with a soulful, mellow vocal tone.
		Boiling down Bill Monroe's 40-plus years of Decca work into 16 songs is an unenviable task, but this collection does an excellent job in surveying his post-Columbia highlights.
		Monroe signed with Decca in 1950, after Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs had moved on to form their rival ensemble, but each of the musicians he brought into his Blue Grass Boys thereafter added a unique and vital voice (singing and instrumental) and helped in part to build an enormous legacy.
	artistmusic.atticcreations.com /artists/m/bill_monroe.htm (550 words)

	Bill Monroe Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Smith (Bill) Monroe was born at Rosine, Kentucky, on September 13, 1911, the youngest of eight children.
		Bill playing mandolin and two of his brothers (Birch on the fiddle and Charlie on guitar) were working semi-professionally for radio station WLS in Chicago.
		Bill Monroe, 84, entered Baptist Hospital in Nashville on April 12 for monitoring while undergoing a change in his medication.
	www.harborside.com /~wchope/monroe.htm (458 words)

	CMT.com : Bill Monroe : Biography
		Bill Monroe was born on Sept. 13, 1911, in Rosine, Ky. Credited as "The Father of Bluegrass," the music he created evolved from the folk and country music he heard growing up in a musical family as the youngest of eight children.
		In the 1940s, Monroe began adding lyrics to his melodies and wrote such classic hits as "Blue Moon of Kentucky" and "Uncle Pen." He hired banjo picker Earl Scruggs, singer-guitarist Lester Flatt and fiddler Chubby Wise on fiddle to create what is widely recognized as the most important bluegrass band ever.
		Monroe was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970, and he earned the National Endowment for the Arts' esteemed Heritage Award.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/monroe_bill/bio.jhtml (576 words)

	Bill Monroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bill Monroe (1911- 1996) and his brothers Charlie and Birch grew up in Ohio County, KY. The brothers learned to play mandolin, fiddle, and guitar and to sing old songs from their mother and her brother Uncle Pen.
		Bill continued to play old-time dance music with his uncle; "We used to ride mule and play for square dances around the county." Bill picked up a range of influences during this time, learning to play the blues on the fiddle and guitar from Arnold Schultz and practicing Sacred Harp and sharp-note singing in churches.
		Monroe continued to perform at the Opry and record with versions of the Blue Grass Boys through 1996; during that time nearly every influential bluegrass musician spent some time as a member of Monroe's Blue Grass Boys.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~1930s/RADIO/c_w/monroe.html (465 words)

	Bill Monroe: The Father of Bluegrass Music
		Bill was married to Caroline Brown in 1935, and soon the Monroe Brothers were making radio appearances in Iowa, Nebraska and the Carolinas.
		In 1969, Bill Monroe was made an honorary Kentucky Colonel.
		Bill Monroe developed and perfected this music form and taught it to a great many names in the industry." He was not only an excellent performer, but he also wrote many songs, several being recorded under the pseudonyms of Albert Price, James B. Smith and James W. Smith.
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	ABC News: Settlement in Bill Monroe Mandolin Fight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jan 7, 2005 — The son of bluegrass music pioneer Bill Monroe and a Kentucky foundation fighting over ownership of the legend's prized mandolin reached a settlement Friday, just days before a trial was to have opened in the dispute.
		Monroe's 1923 Gibson F5 mandolin bought from a Miami barbershop for $150 in 1943 and considered a key to his stylistic development has remained in a locked vault during the dispute.
		James Monroe agreed to sell the mandolin to the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Foundation of Kentucky in Rosine for $1.1 million in October 2002.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=394793&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (368 words)

	Bill Monroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Monroe turned 18, he moved to East Chicago, IN, where his brothers Birch and Charlie were working at an oil refinery.
		Charlie and Bill decided to continue performing as the Monroe Brothers.
		Monroe released his first album, Knee Deep in Bluegrass, in 1958, the same year he appeared on the country singles chart with "Scotland"; the number 27 single was his first hit in almost a decade.
	www.djangomusic.com /artist_bio.asp?id=R+++488564 (1378 words)

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