The Edge Of AmericanaHappy 100th Birthday, Bill Monroe!

Tonight we fete the man . . .

the MAIN man: Bill Monroe, born September 13th, 1911.

PODCAST AVAILABLE HERE

Happy Bluegrass Birthday!

JB&OK

Artist / Song Title / Album / Comments

Bill Monroe / Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys live recordings 1956-1969 / Folkways
Bill Monroe / Big Mon / Bluegrass Instrumentals / Decca
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Can't You Hear Me Calling / 1965-73 Pioneering Women of Bluegrass / Folkways

Bill Monroe and Doc Watson / Paddy On The Turnpike / Off The Record, (Volume 2): Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 / Folkways
Bill Monroe / A Voice From On High / The Music of Bill Monroe / MCA
Del McCoury / You'll Find Her Name Written There / Don't Stop The Music / McCoury Music
Old & in the Way / Uncle Pen / 1973 That High Lonesome Sound / Acoustic Disc

Bill Monroe / I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky / Bluegrass Ramble / Decca
The Bluegrass Album Band / Toy Heart / The Bluegrass Album Disc Vol. 2 / Rounder
Foghorn Duo / Girl in the Blue Velvet Band / Lonesome Song / Self
Bill Monroe / True Life Blues / Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys live recordings 1956-1969 / Folkways
Bryan Sutton / Roanoke / Bluegrass Guitar / Suga Hill

Armstrong Twins / Cabin Home in Caroline / 1944-50 Bluegrass Bonanza: Early Bluegrass / Proper
Bill Monroe / Cripple Creek / Kentucky Bluegrass / Decca
Rooster Ruley / Rawhide / Junkyard Jam Session / Self
Jim and Jesse / Wait A Little Longer Please Jesus / Old Dominion Masters / Rebel
Seldom Scene / She's My Little Georgia Rose / Act 3 / Rebel
Tony Rice / Monroe's Hornpipe / The Bluegrass Guitar Collection / Rounder

Monroe Brothers / What Would You Give In Exchange / The Music of Bill Monroe / MCA
The Stanley Brothers / LIttle Birdie / An Evening Long Ago: Live 1956 / Sony
Larry Keel & Natural Bridge with Fiddlin' Dave VanDeventer / Stoney Lonesome / Hand Picked: The Best Of Watermelon Hand Picked: The Best Of Watermelon Park Fest / Shepherd's Ford
Bill Monroe / Stone Coal / Southern Flavor / Decca
Michael Daves / Close By / Live At Rockwood Music Hall / Self
Bob Paisley and the Southern Grass / When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again / Forty Years Of Trouble "Live" / Rural Rhythm
Norman Blake / Little Joe / Back Home in Sulfur Springs / Rounder
Ricky Skaggs / Mother's Only Sleeping / Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass Tribute To 1946 And 1947 / Skaggs Family

Bill Monroe / Dark As The Night, Blue As the Day / The Music of Bill Monroe / MCA
Bill Monroe / Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia / Bill Monroe Sings Country Songs / Vocalion
Kenny Baker / Cheyenne / Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe / County
Doc Watson / Christmas Time's A Comin' / Christmas On The Mountain (A Bluegrass Christmas) / MCA

Sam Bush & Alan Mundy / Panhandle Country / Together Again for The First Time / Ridge Runner
Big Country Bluegrass / The Boys In Hats And Ties / The Boys In Hats And Ties / Rebel
Ricky Skaggs / Get Up John / Bluegrass Rules! / Rounder
The Stanley Brothers / Molly And Tenbrooks / Earliest Recordings – The Complete Rich-r-tone 78's / Rounder

Seldom Scene / Summertime Is Past and Gone / Act I / Rounder
Wayne Henderson / Jerusalem Ridge / Made & Played /
Bill Monroe / Sitting Alone In The Moonlight / The Music of Bill Monroe / MCA