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Bill Monroe

The "Father of Bluegrass Music", Bill Monroe spearheaded the genre's growth across America and later internationally through his famous mandolin playing, relentless touring schedule and mentoring of other musicians for more than six decades beginning in the 1930s until his death in 1996. This hard-edged style of country music with a fast, driving tempo and woeful lyrics is epitomized in many of Monroe's legendary songs such as Blue Moon of Kentucky, Uncle Pen, Rawhide, and Big Mon. Other hits such as Kentucky Waltz and Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine, slower in tempo, evoke the bittersweet and somewhat tragic lament of bluegrass music. His project, Southern Flavor, won a GRAMMY for Best Bluegrass Album in 1988, more than fifty years after his musical career began.