The most exciting of these is a tribute to the 1946-47 edition of the Bill Monroe band that featured Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

Together with brother Charlie in the late '30s, Monroe's cross-pollination of traditional Celtic reels and southern American gospel assured him immortality as the founding father of bluegrass ...

This week marks the 100th birthday of the bluegrass legend, who's credited with the genre's invention. This mix showcases Monroe's "Hillbilly Jazz" style of playing, as well as the friends and ...

Bill Monroe has been a foundational figure of the bluegrass genre. We revisit five of Monroe's most notable songs.

He was otherwise a remote and spectral figure, known to new fans only by his records, especially classics of the late 1940s like “Blue Moon of Kentucky” and “Can’t You Hear Me Callin ...

Tony Rice's new 'The Bill Monroe Collection' shows how the music style Monroe invented endures.

Flashback: Bill Monroe’s ‘Blue Moon of Kentucky’ Inspires Elvis, Beatles Original waltz-tempo version of now-classic bluegrass and rock tune was released 71 years ago today By Stephen L. Betts ...

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 ...

The Father of Bluegrass died 20 years ago. Now, Monroe's family is cleaning out the closets — and for music fans, even some of his most mundane possessions are meaningful.

The Kentucky property where Bill Monroe laid the foundation for bluegrass music, the genre he pioneered, is for sale.