The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass
Smith, Richard D.
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Paperback
Edition: Da Capo Press Edition
400 pages
16pp B&w Photographs
Published: 2001
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN / EAN: 0306810549
Drawing on the traditional "hillbilly" music of his Kentucky childhood, the late Bill Monroe created the "high lonesome sound" of bluegrass; his accomplished mandolin-playing and haunting high-range voice backed by fiddle and five-string banjo. This biog