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Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music is a magnificent representation of just exactly how important Bill Monroe truly is to multiple generations of musicians (as well as non-musicians!). Monroe put it this way, Bluegrass music is like going to school. When you learn Bluegrass, you can play a lot of music..
(His book is available from Amazon.com) In all the history of bluegrass music there are only two people, in the opinion of this writer, without whom bluegrass would not exist as it does today: one is Bill Monroe, the other is Earl Scruggs. In all the discussions of who was the most important, John Hartford said it best, Heres the way I feel about it.