1964 ... John Henry On And On Wheel Hoss Draggin' The Bow On My Way Back To The Old Home Bluegrass Breakdown Bluegrass Special Sally Jo Muleskinner Blues Goodbye Old Pal Tennessee Waltz I Saw The Light I'll Meet You In Church Sunday Morning I'm One Of God's Sheep Katy Hill Cousin Jody Promo And Chatter Y'all Come Benny Williams - Fiddle Bruce … Because of this, he is often called the "Father of Bluegrass".[1]. Monroe also regularly performed with flat-picking guitar virtuoso Doc Watson. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, … His well-known song "Blue Moon of Kentucky" has been covered not only by bluegrass but also rock and country artists, most notably Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, and Patsy Cline. Rinzler was also responsible for a lengthy profile and interview in the influential folk music magazine Sing Out! Beginning with his Blue Grass Boys in the '40s, Monroe defined a hard-edged … Bluegrass Breakdown (Instrumental) 9. Bill Monroe And The Blue Grass Boys Singing "A Voice From On High" says: March 20, 2018 at 11:06 am […] the Kentuckians, but it didn’t last that long. Even those who question the scope of bluegrass refer to Monroe as a "musical giant" and recognize that "there would be no bluegrass without Bill Monroe."[15]. A 1989 live album celebrated his 50th year on the Grand Ole Opry. Monroe's performing career spanned 69 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. Monroe recorded that song, along with seven others, at his first solo recording session for RCA Victor in 1940; by this time, the Blue Grass Boys consisted of singer/guitarist Clyde Moody, fiddler Tommy Magness, and bassist Bill Wesbrooks.[6]. Skaggs was only six years old, in 1960, when he first got to perform on stage with Monroe and his band at the high school in Martha, Kentucky. Listen to your favorite songs from Bluegrass Breakdown by Bill Monroe Now. [18], Quotations related to Bill Monroe at Wikiquote, This article is about the American musician. A Good Woman's Love 29. Both Flatt and Scruggs left Monroe's band in early 1948, soon forming their own group, the Foggy Mountain Boys. William Smith Monroe (/mənˈroʊ/; September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter, who created the bluegrass music genre. Scruggs played the banjo with a distinctive three-finger picking style that immediately caused a sensation among Opry audiences. After the Monroe Brothers disbanded in 1938, Bill Monroe formed The Kentuckians in Little Rock, Arkansas, but the group only lasted for three months. ", "Goodbye Old Pal" / "Blue Moon of Kentucky", "Blue Grass Special" / "How Will I Explain About You", "Shine Hallelujah Shine" / "I'm Travelin' On and On", "My Rose of Old Kentucky" / "Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong", "I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling" / "Little Cabin Home On the Hill", "That Home Above" / "Little Community Church", "Summertime Is Past and Gone" / "Wicked Path of Sin", "It's Mighty Dark To Travel" / "When You Are Lonely", "The Old Cross Road" / "Remember the Cross", "Heavy Traffic Ahead" / "Along About Daybreak", "I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky" / "Molly and Tenbrooks", "The Girl In the Blue Velvet Band" / "Bluegrass Stomp", "Can't You Hear Me Calling" / "Travelin' This Lonesome Road", "I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome" / "Boat of Love", "On the Old Kentucky Shore" / "Poison Love", "Lord Protect My Soul" / "River of Death", "Rotation Blues" / "Lonesome Truck Driver's Blues", "I'll Meet You In Church Sunday Morning" / "Get Down On Your Knees and Pray", "Highway of Sorrow" / "Sugar Coated Love", "Christmas Time's A-Coming" / "The First Whippoorwill", "I'm On My Way To the Old Home" / "The First Whippoorwill", "When the Cactus Is In Bloom" / "Sailor's Plea", "Pike County Breakdown" / "A Mighty Pretty Waltz", "Footprints In the Snow" / "In the Pines", "You're Drifting Away" / "Walking In Jerusalem", "Memories of Mother and Dad" / "The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake", "I Hope You Have Learned" / "Wishing Waltz", "Happy On My Way" / "He Will Set Your Fields On Fire", "Wait A Little Longer, Please Jesus" / "Let the Light Shine Down On Me", "Put My Little Shoes Away" / "Wheel Hoss", "On and On" / "I Believed In You Darling", "You'll Find Her Name Written There" / "Sitting Alone In the Moonlight", "Molly and Tenbrooks" / "I'm Sitting On the Top of the World", "Tomorrow I'll Be Gone" / "Dark As the Night, Blue As the Day", "Lonesome Wind Blues" / "Come Go With Me", "Precious Memories" / "Jesus Hold My Hand", "Blue Ridge Mountain Blues" / "How Will I Explain About You", "There Was Nothing We Could Do" / "Big Sandy River", "Shenandoah Breakdown" / "Mary At the Home Place", "I Live In the Past" / "There's An Old, Old House", "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again" / "Pretty Fair Maiden In the Garden", "Train 45" / "Is the Blue Moon Still Shining", "I Haven't Seen Mary In Years" / "Crossing the Cumberlands", "Bonny" / "Sweet Mary and the MIles In Between", "Walk Softly On My Heart" / "McKinley's March", "My Old Kentucky and You" / "Lonesome Moonlight Waltz", "Down Yonder" / "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", "My Sweet Blue Eyed Darling" / "Monroe's Blues", This page was last edited on 21 January 2020, at 15:08. Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Later, Scruggs changed the song, adding a minor chord, thus creating "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" The song contains a musical oddity — Flatt plays an E major chord against Scruggs's E minor. A Fallen Star 27. In October 1939, Monroe successfully auditioned for a regular spot on the Grand Ole Opry, impressing Opry founder George D. Hay with his energetic performance of Jimmie Rodgers's "Mule Skinner Blues". On highway 31-W, near White House, their car was struck by a drunken driver. 3:02 PREVIEW Can't You Hear Me Calling. In the meantime Charlie Cline and Jimmy Martin kept the band together.[9]. The last-named was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1954, appearing as the B-side of his first single for Sun Records. By the late 1950s, however, Monroe's commercial fortunes had begun to slip. Song information for Ashland Breakdown - Bill Monroe on AllMusic. Bill Monroe is the father of bluegrass. 2011 Preview SONG TIME Uncle Pen. Many college students and other young people were beginning to discover Monroe, associating his style more with traditional folk music than with the country-and-western genre with which it had previously been identified. William Smith Monroe (født 13. september 1911 i Rosine, Kentucky, USA, død 9. september 1996) var en amerikansk musiker som skapte den musikalske sjangeren kjent som bluegrass.Navnet er hentet fra hans band Blue Grass Boys, døpt etter Monroes hjemstat Kentucky, kjent som The Bluegrass State.Monroes musikalske karriere strakte seg over 60 år som sanger, instrumentalist, komponist og … More than 150 musicians played in the Blue Grass Boys over the nearly 60 years of Monroe's performing career. Bill Monroe. Style: … "[2] Also significant in Monroe's musical life was Arnold Shultz, an influential fiddler and guitarist who introduced Monroe to the blues.[3][4]. Rosine, Kentucky, is where Bill Monroe grew up and where Bill, his siblings, his parents, and his greatest musical influence, Uncle Pen are buried in the Rosine Cemetery. While Flatt and Scruggs immediately recognized the potential for a lucrative new audience in cities and on college campuses in the North, Monroe was slower to respond. Akeman played the instrument in a relatively primitive style and was rarely featured in instrumental solos. (Little Cabin Home on the Hill - Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys) Bill Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist who helped create the style of music known as bluegrass. Bluegrass Breakdown Bill Monroe Buy this song. Some of Monroe's band members who went on to greater prominence include singer/guitarists Clyde Moody, Lester Flatt, Jack Cook, Mac Wiseman, Jimmy Martin, Carter Stanley, Del McCoury, Peter Rowan, Roland White, Roland Dunn and Doug Green; banjo players Earl Scruggs, Buck Trent, Don Reno, Stringbean, Sonny Osborne, and Bill Keith; and fiddlers Tommy Magness, Chubby Wise, Vassar Clements, Byron Berline, Kenny Baker, Bobby Hicks, Gordon Terry, Randall Franks and Glen Duncan. The Great Bill Monroe: Harmony: HL 7290: 1962: My All Time Country Favorites: Decca: DL … Carter Stanley joined the Blue Grass Boys as guitarist for a short time in 1951 during a period when The Stanley Brothers had temporarily disbanded. 20th Century Masters: The Best of Bill Monroe (The Millennium Collection) 1999 The Essential Bill Monroe & The Monroe Brothers 1997 Bean Blossom (Live) 1973 Live Recordings 1956-1969: Off the Record, Vol. Earnest (9) Plaintive (8) Rustic (8) Amiable/Good-Natured (7) … bill monroe, Bluegrass Breakdown, The Bluegrass Boys. Remembered as the “Father of Bluegrass Music,” Bill Monroe is better understood as a master chef or chemist, blending earlier musical elements into an exciting new form. Read and write song reviews for Bluegrass Breakdown - Bill Monroe on AllMusic 20th Century Masters: The Best of Bill Monroe (The Millennium Collection) 1999 Bean Blossom (Live) 1973 Live Recordings 1956-1969: Off the Record, Vol. 1 1993 Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record, Vol. Genres, Styles, Moods & Themes for Bluegrass Breakdown - Bill Monroe on AllMusic Song information for Ashland Breakdown - Bill Monroe on AllMusic AllMusic. Bill Monroe ‘s Old Homeplace on Pigeon Ridge, Rosine, Ohio County, Kentucky.September 28, 2016. It took him almost four months to recover and resume touring. Roland White - Guitar, Vocals Benny Williams - Fiddle Vic Jordan - Banjo, Vocals James Monroe - Bass, Vocals Don Reno - Banjo, Vocals On (1) Ralph Stanley - Banjo On (2) Sonny Osborne - Banjo, Vocals On (3) Bobby Osborne - Mandolin, Vocals On (4) Bill Harrell - Guitar, Vocals On (5) George Shuffler - Bass, Vocals On (6) Notes: Guests On Set 2 May Play On Additional Tracks Beyond Those Mentioned; I Have Listed … In 1929, Monroe moved to Indiana to work at an oil refinery with his brothers Birch and Charlie, and childhood friend and guitarist William "Old Hickory" Hardin. All Moods. Download our mobile app now. Monroe died on September 9, 1996, in Springfield, Tennessee, four days before his 85th birthday.[13]. I'm Sitting on Top of the World. The wood-framed house was built around the original sandstone … This band recorded a number of bluegrass classics, including "My Little Georgia Rose", "On and On", "Memories of Mother and Dad", and "Uncle Pen", as well as instrumentals such as "Roanoke", "Big Mon", "Stoney Lonesome", "Get Up John", and the mandolin feature "Raw Hide". As the "father of bluegrass", he was also an inaugural inductee into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1991. He stated, "I think Bill Monroe's importance to American music is as important as someone like Robert Johnson was to blues, or Louis Armstrong. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. Brown County Breakdown (Instrumental) 26. Download our mobile app now. In 1946, the Blue Grass […] Bill was of Scottish and English heritage. [14] That year's fellowships were the first bestowed by the NEA. They scored an immediate hit single with the gospel song "What Would You Give in Exchange For Your Soul?" This page was last edited on 11 January 2021, at 08:25. William Smith Monroe (/ m ə n ˈ r oʊ /; September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter, who created the bluegrass music genre. Monroe also kept a hectic touring schedule. He would often say of new bands that did not perform to his standards, "That ain't no part of nothin'." When he moved to Atlanta he formed another band, the Blue Grass Boys. Because his older brothers Birch and Charlie already played the fiddle and guitar, Bill was resigned to playing the less desirable mandolin. On April 7, 1990, Monroe performed for Farm Aid IV in Indianapolis, Indiana along with Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and with many other artists. Monroe's compositions during his later period were largely instrumentals, including "Jerusalem Ridge", "Old Dangerfield" (originally spelled Daingerfield after the town in East Texas),[12] and "My Last Days on Earth"; he settled into a new role as a musical patriarch who continued to influence younger generations of musicians. 1. On that album, Monroe recorded a number of traditional fiddle tunes he had often heard performed by Vandiver. Bluegrass festivals became common, with fans often traveling long distances to see a number of different acts over several days of performances. 1 1993 Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record, Vol. Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. In 1949, after signing with Decca Records, Monroe entered what has been called the "golden age" of his career[8] with what many consider the classic "high lonesome" version of the Blue Grass Boys, featuring the lead vocals and rhythm guitar of Jimmy Martin, the banjo of Rudy Lyle (replacing Don Reno), and fiddlers such as Merle "Red" Taylor, Charlie Cline, Bobby Hicks, William Hicks and Vassar Clements. Bill Monroe (1911-1996) was five-going-on-six years old when the Homeplace was built in 1917, believed built to celebrate the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of his parents, James Buchanan, aka J.B., and Malissa Vandiver Monroe. ... Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys* ‎– Blue Grass Breakdown Label: Javelin ‎– PRACD 4003 Format: CD, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1997 Genre: Folk, World, & Country. that first publicly referred to Monroe as the "father" of bluegrass. Season 2 … Bill Monroe was made an honorary Kentucky Colonel in 1966. Bill often spoke of wanting to bring “ancient tones” into his sparklingly innovative music. ... (a 14-year-old debutant on this album) and the wonderfully insightful Laurie Lewis. In 1993, he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1995. The word "bluegrass" first appeared around this time to describe the sound of Monroe and similar artists such as Flatt and Scruggs, the Stanley Brothers, Reno and Smiley, Jim and Jesse, and the Osborne Brothers. He recalled that his brothers insisted he should remove four of the mandolin's eight strings so he would not play too loudly. and ultimately recorded 60 tracks for Victor's Bluebird label between 1936 and 1938.[5]. 100% Unlimited! Monroe's mother died when he was ten, and his father died six years later. In 1992, Columbia/Legacy released The Essential Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys (1945-1949), a double CD that contained 24 of Monroe's 40 released recordings made for Columbia Records between 1945 and 1949, along with alternate takes of the other 16. [9] He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as an "early influence") in 1997. In 2003, CMT had Bill Monroe ranked No. He invented the style, invented the name, and for the great majority of the 20th century, embodied the art form. This experience inspired one of Monroe's most famous compositions, "Uncle Pen," recorded in 1950, and the 1972 album Bill Monroe's Uncle Pen. Four Walls 28. Bill Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist who helped create the style of music known as bluegrass.The genre takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys", named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Song Moods. Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Hank Williams Sr., and Johnny Cash are the only other performers honored in all three. Down the Road from the Homeplace of Bill Monroe When you visit the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum, you are just 45 minutes from the homeplace of Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass. Flatt and Scruggs joined a highly accomplished group that included fiddler Howdy Forrester and bassist Joe Forrester and would soon include fiddler Chubby Wise and bassist Howard Watts, who often performed under the name "Cedric Rainwater". Song information for … Bill had wanted William Hardin to become one of the original members of his Blue Grass Boys, however he had to decline. Flatt played a solid rhythm guitar style that would help to set the course for bluegrass timing. When asked about the dissonance years later, Scruggs said he had … Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys - Bluegrass Breakdown - YouTube A 1945 session for Columbia Records featured an accordion, soon dropped from the band. Monroe then left Little Rock for Atlanta, Georgia, to form the first edition of the Blue Grass Boys with singer/guitarist Cleo Davis, fiddler Art Wooten, and bassist Amos Garren. Listen to your favorite songs from Orange Blossom Special by Bill Monroe And His Bluegrass Boys Now. He seldom sang lead vocals on his Victor recordings, often preferring to contribute high tenor harmonies as he had in the Monroe Brothers. Artists that claimed to be influenced by or to be playing the bluegrass genre were often bullied by Bill Monroe. Accordingly, at the first bluegrass festival organized by Carlton Haney at Roanoke, Virginia in 1965, Bill Monroe was the central figure. Bill Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) developed the style of … He always considered himself the father and caretaker of bluegrass. Monroe gave his blessing to Presley's rock and roll cover of the song, originally a slow ballad in waltz time, and in fact re-recorded it himself with a faster arrangement after Presley's version became a hit. By this time, Monroe had acquired the 1923 Gibson F5 model "Lloyd Loar" mandolin, which became his trademark instrument for the remainder of his career.[7]. Under the influence of Ralph Rinzler, a young musician and folklorist from New Jersey who briefly became Monroe's manager in 1963, Monroe gradually expanded his geographic reach beyond the traditional southern country music circuit. "[16], In 1999, the portion of Indiana State Road 135 running from Morgantown through to Nashville, Indiana was dedicated to Bill Monroe and is known as the Bill Monroe Memorial Highway. Carolina ... Bluegrass Breakdown. He and "Bluegrass Boys" bass player, Bessie Lee Mauldin, were returning home from a fox hunt north of Nashville. Most importantly, Monroe added banjo player David "'Stringbean" Akeman to the Blue Grass Boys in 1942. While the fast tempos and instrumental virtuosity characteristic of bluegrass music are apparent even on these early tracks, Monroe was still experimenting with the sound of his group. Previously, Scruggs had performed something similar, called "Bluegrass Breakdown" with Bill Monroe, but Monroe had denied him songwriting credit for it. Rosenberg, Neil V., and Charles K. Wolfe (2007). Bluegrass Breakdown (Instrumental) is a popular song by Bill Monroe | Create your own TikTok videos with the Bluegrass Breakdown (Instrumental) song and explore 2 videos made by new and popular creators. He invented the style, invented the name, and for the great majority of the 20th century, embodied the art form. Featured New Releases; Editors' Choice ... 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