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Most would recognize a mandolin’s crisp upper-octave play in bluegrass music. No reputable bluegrass band has entertained without a “mando” player since Bill Monroe’s musicianship the late 1940s.

Bill Monroe's battered and scarred mandolin, on which a new American musical genre was created, is going to the late artist's birthplace in Kentucky as a million-dollar musical instrument.

His musical mentor, the "Father of Bluegrass," Bill Monroe, died more than ... wearing white gloves and holding Monroe's original mandolin -- an instrument made by Lloyd Loar in the early 1920.

"My dad had bought me a mandolin the year before when I was 5 and I played it in church," Skaggs said. "Then we found out Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys were coming to town." Skaggs had heard ...

It's no exaggeration to call Bill Monroe one of the most influential ... "Give me a call if you ever need a mandolin player in the Mountain Stage band," he told host Larry Groce.

ROSINE, Ky. -- During the half-century that bluegrass master Bill Monroe wielded his mandolin, it was run over by a car, drenched with rain and beaten to pieces by a vandal. Yet through it all ...

Brown County is home to many things but the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival is a must see as they are set to host the 60th ...

Richard D. Smith. 365 pages. Little, Brown & Co. $25.95. 365 pp. Bill Monroe was a mandolin virtuoso, an unforgettable singer, a visionary bandleader, a brilliant judge of musicians and the ...

To note, the only mandolin Osborne played on the album was on a cover of Bill Monroe’s “Sweetheart You Done Wrong,” which features a triple-threat musical barrage of Osborne, Lewandowski, ...

Ricky Skaggs started playing mandolin when he was just 5 ... “Well, I wouldn’t have met (bluegrass pioneer) Bill Monroe at age 6. I wouldn’t have been onstage on (legendary instrumentalists ...