No single figure in American popular music has so dominated a style as Bill Monroe Has bluegrass music. A member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1939, he created the music out of his Eastern Kentucky roots, taking the fiddle tunes learned from his Uncle Pen Vandiver and the blues learned from black blues guitarist Arnold Schultz, fusing it all into a new sound. He was honored at the 1993 Grammys with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his 57 years of recording what remain the definitive versions of hundreds of bluegrass classics.

Bill Monroe: Father Of Bluegrass Music features music perfomances by Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys, Lester Flatt, Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, Bill Keith, Paul McCartney, Del McCoury, The Osborne Brothers, Dolly Parton, Peter Rowan & Tim O’Brien, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart and “Chubby” Wise. Also featured are interviews with Monroe and past and current members of The Bluegrass Boys, as well as a rare moment with country legend Roy Acuff who reminisces about the early days at the Opry.

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Color, 91 Minutes