My wife and I came to bluegrass music a little late, but I suppose many people do. Because Irene and I come to music from different backgrounds, we needed a place to meet, a style to share in common. I […]
My wife and I came to bluegrass music a little late, but I suppose many people do. Because Irene and I come to music from different backgrounds, we needed a place to meet, a style to share in common. I […]
This four-CD box concludes Bear Family’s encyclopedic six-box exploration of Monroe’s career. The focus here, Monroe’s last thirteen years on MCA, starts in 1981 when, diagnosed with colon cancer, he wrote and recorded the somber, decidedly un-Monroe instrumental peroration “My […]
He was Uncle Pen incarnate, a snowy-haired, almost Biblical figure championing the purity of the music he created, seemingly poised to smite anyone who dared sully it. Six years after his death, that has become Bill Monroe’s image beyond the […]
Does the world really need another Bill Monroe compilation? His reputation as the father of bluegrass is as widespread as ever, and most folks have already formed an opinion about his music. Music historians have waxed eloquent about the primitive […]
The point of the thing, the liner notes say, is to draw attention to Bill Monroe as a songwriter/composer and not simply as the father of bluegrass and a superb instrumentalist. Somehow that seems an odd premise to require proof; […]
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