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William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter, who helped to create the style of music known as bluegrass. [1]

112 relations: Accordion, American folk music, Arnold Shultz, Ballad, Banjo, Beanblossom, Indiana, Bessie Lee Mauldin, Bill Keith (musician), Bill Monroe, Birch Monroe, Blue Moon of Kentucky, Bluebird Records, Bluegrass music, Blues, Bob Wills, Bobby Hicks, Buck Trent, Byron Berline, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Carter Stanley, Charlie Cline, Charlie Monroe, Chubby Wise, Cleo Davis, Clyde Moody, CMT (U.S. TV channel), Columbia Records, Country music, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Da Capo Press, Daingerfield, Texas, David "Stringbean" Akeman, Decca Records, Del McCoury, Doc Watson, Don Reno, Earl Scruggs, Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris, Farm Aid, Fiddle, Foggy Mountain Boys, George D. Hay, Gordon Terry, Gospel music, Gotta Travel On, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grand Ole Opry, Guitar, Hank Williams, ..., Honorific nicknames in popular music, Hot Country Songs, Indiana, Indianapolis, International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, Jim & Jesse, Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), Jimmy Martin, John Mellencamp, Johnny Cash, Kenny Baker (fiddler), Kentucky, Kentucky Colonel, Kentucky Waltz, Lester Flatt, List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas, Mac Wiseman, Mandolin, MCA Records, Molly and Tenbrooks, Mule Skinner Blues, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Nashville sound, Nashville, Tennessee, Neil Young, Osborne Brothers, Patsy Cline, Paul McCartney, Pendleton Vandiver, Peter Rowan, Ralph Rinzler, Randall Franks, RCA Records, Reno and Smiley, Richard Greene (musician), Ricky Skaggs, Riders in the Sky (band), Roanoke, Virginia, Rock and roll, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Roland White, Roots revival, Rosine, Kentucky, Rudy Lyle, Scottish Americans, Sing Out!, Singing, Songwriter, Springfield, Tennessee, Sun Records, Tennessee, The New York Times, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Stanley Brothers, The Strangers (American band), United States, University of Illinois Press, Vassar Clements, Waltz, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson. Expand index (62 more) »

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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American folk music

The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, or roots music.

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Arnold Shultz

Arnold Shultz (1886–1931) was an African-American fiddler and guitarist who is noted as a major influence in the development of the "thumb-style," or "Travis picking" method of playing guitar.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Beanblossom, Indiana

Beanblossom, also spelled Bean Blossom, is an unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana.

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Bessie Lee Mauldin

Bessie Lee Mauldin (Bessie Lee "The Carolina Songbird" Mauldin; in Norwood, North Carolina &ndash) was an American bluegrass bassist just like her brother Isaac Mauldin.

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Bill Keith (musician)

William Bradford "Bill" Keith (December 20, 1939 – October 23, 2015) was a five-string banjoist who made a significant contribution to the stylistic development of the instrument.

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Bill Monroe

William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter, who helped to create the style of music known as bluegrass.

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Birch Monroe

Birch Monroe (May 16, 1901 – May 15, 1982) was an American early bluegrass fiddler, bassist, founding member of the Monroe brothers, and older brother to Charlie and Bill Monroe.

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Blue Moon of Kentucky

"Blue Moon of Kentucky" is a waltz written in 1946 by bluegrass musician Bill Monroe and recorded by his band, the Blue Grass Boys.

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Bluebird Records

Bluebird Records was a record label known for its low-cost releases, primarily of blues and jazz in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music named after Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys 1939-96, and furthered by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt, or who simply admired the high-energy instrumental and vocal music Monroe's group created, and carried it on into new bands, some of which created subgenres (Progressive Bluegrass, Newgrass, Dawg Music etc.). Bluegrass is influenced by the music of Appalachia and other styles, including gospel and jazz.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Wills

James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

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Bobby Hicks

Bobby Hicks (born July 21, 1933) is a Grammy Award American bluegrass fiddler and a professional musician with more than fifty years of experience.

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Buck Trent

Charles Wilburn "Buck" Trent is an American country music instrumentalist currently performing in Branson, Missouri.

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Byron Berline

Byron Berline (born July 6, 1944) is an American fiddle player.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Carter Stanley

Carter Glen Stanley (August 27, 1925 – December 1, 1966) was a bluegrass music lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitar player.

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Charlie Cline

Charles "Charlie" Cline (born June 6, 1931 Baisden, West Virginia - died November 19, 2004), was an American bluegrass fiddler and multi-instrumentalist, known for being the sideman of several legendary bluegrass groups from the 1950s and well into the 1980s.

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Charlie Monroe

Charlie Monroe (July 4, 1903 – September 27, 1975) was an American country and bluegrass music guitarist.

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Chubby Wise

Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise (October 2, 1915 – January 6, 1996) was an American bluegrass fiddler.

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Cleo Davis

Cleo Davis (March 9, 1919 – July 17, 1986) was an American musician who gained prominence as "the original Blue Grass Boy".

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Clyde Moody

Clyde Moody (September 19, 1915 – April 7, 1989), also known as the "Hillbilly Waltz King" and sometimes as "The Genial Gentleman of Country Music" was one of the great founders of American Bluegrass music.

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CMT (U.S. TV channel)

CMT, originally launched as CMTV, is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the world's largest museums and research centers dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American vernacular music.

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Da Capo Press

Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Daingerfield, Texas

Daingerfield is a city in Morris County, Texas, United States.

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David "Stringbean" Akeman

David Akeman (June 17, 1915 – November 10, 1973), better known as Stringbean (or String Bean), was an American country music banjo player and comedy musician best known for his role on the hit television show, Hee Haw, and as a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Del McCoury

Delano Floyd "Del" McCoury (born February 1, 1939) is an American bluegrass musician.

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Doc Watson

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music.

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Don Reno

Donald Wesley Reno (February 21, 1926Trischka, Tony, "Don Reno", Banjo Song Book, Oak Publications, 1977 – October 16, 1984) was an American bluegrass and country musician best known as a banjo player in partnership with Red Smiley, and later with guitarist Bill Harrell.

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Earl Scruggs

Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician.

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Farm Aid

Farm Aid started as a benefit concert held September 22, 1985, in Champaign, Illinois, to raise money for family farmers in the United States.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Foggy Mountain Boys

The Foggy Mountain Boys were an American bluegrass band.

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George D. Hay

George Dewey Hay (November 9, 1895 – May 8, 1968) was an American radio personality, announcer and newspaper reporter.

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Gordon Terry

Gordon Terry (October 7, 1931–April 9, 2006) was an adept American bluegrass and country music fiddler and guitarist.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Gotta Travel On

"Gotta Travel On" is a song written by Paul Clayton, The Weavers, Larry Ehrlich, and Dave Lazer and performed by Billy Grammer.

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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording." This award is distinct from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which honors specific recordings rather than individuals, and the Grammy Trustees Award, which honors non-performers.

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Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hank Williams

Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Honorific nicknames in popular music

Honorific nicknames in popular music are terms used, most often in the media or by fans, to indicate the significance of an artist, and are often religious, familial, or (most frequently) royal and aristocratic titles, used metaphorically.

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Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame

Induction to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, called the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor from its creation in 1991 through 2006, is managed by the International Bluegrass Music Association, and the Hall itself is maintained at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum, Owensboro, Kentucky.

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Jim & Jesse

Jim & Jesse were an American bluegrass music duo composed of brothers Jim McReynolds (February 13, 1927 – December 31, 2002) and Jesse McReynolds (born July 9, 1929).

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Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)

James Charles Rodgers (September 8, 1897 – May 26, 1933), professionally Jimmie Rodgers, was an American country, blues and folk singer, songwriter and musician in the early 20th century, known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling.

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Jimmy Martin

James Henry Martin (August 10, 1927 – May 14, 2005) was an American bluegrass musician, known as the "King of Bluegrass".

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John Mellencamp

John J Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author.

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Kenny Baker (fiddler)

Kenneth Clayton Baker (June 26, 1926 – July 8, 2011) was an American fiddle player best known for his 25-year tenure with Bill Monroe and his group The Blue Grass Boys.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Kentucky Colonel

Kentucky Colonel is the highest title of honor bestowed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Kentucky Waltz

"Kentucky Waltz" is a 1946 song written and performed by Bill Monroe.

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Lester Flatt

Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 – May 11, 1979) was an American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in The Foggy Mountain Boys (popularly known as "Flatt and Scruggs").

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List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts

The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts.

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Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Mac Wiseman

Malcolm B. Wiseman (born May 23, 1925), known professionally as Mac Wiseman, is an American bluegrass singer.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Molly and Tenbrooks

"Molly and Tenbrooks," also known as "The Racehorse Song," is a traditional song of the late 19th century.

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Mule Skinner Blues

"Mule Skinner Blues" (a.k.a. "Blue Yodel #8", "Muleskinner Blues", and "Muleskinner's Blues") is a classic country song written by Jimmie Rodgers and George Vaughan.

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Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame was established in 1970 by the Nashville Songwriters Foundation, Inc.

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Nashville sound

The Nashville sound originated during the mid 1950s as a subgenre of American country music, replacing the chart dominance of the rough honky tonk music which was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s with "smooth strings and choruses", "sophisticated background vocals" and "smooth tempos".

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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Neil Young

Neil Percival Young, (born November 12, 1945), is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter.

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Osborne Brothers

The Osborne Brothers, Sonny Osborne (b. October 29, 1937) and Bobby Osborne (b. December 7, 1931), were an influential and popular bluegrass act during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley; September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer and part of the Nashville sound during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Pendleton Vandiver

James Pendleton Vandiver (1869–1932) was a Kentucky fiddler, born there shortly after the American Civil War.

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Peter Rowan

Peter Rowan (born July 4, 1942) is an American bluegrass musician and composer.

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Ralph Rinzler

Ralph Rinzler (July 20, 1934 – July 2, 1994) was a mandolin player, folksinger, and the co-founder of the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the Mall every summer in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a curator for American art, music, and folk culture at the Smithsonian.

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Randall Franks

Randall Franks is an American film and television actor, author, and a bluegrass singer and musician who plays fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and mountain dulcimer.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Reno and Smiley

Reno and Smiley were a musical duo composed of Don Reno and Red Smiley.

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Richard Greene (musician)

Richard Greene (born November 9, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is an American violinist (a.k.a. fiddler) who has been described as "one of the most innovative and influential fiddle players of all time".

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Ricky Skaggs

Rickie Lee Skaggs (born July 18, 1954), known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer.

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Riders in the Sky (band)

Riders in the Sky is an American Western music and comedy group which began performing in 1977.

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Roanoke, Virginia

Roanoke is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Roland White

Roland White (born April 23, 1938) is an American bluegrass music artist, performing principally on the mandolin.

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Roots revival

A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.

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Rosine, Kentucky

Rosine is an unincorporated community in Ohio County, Kentucky, United States.

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Rudy Lyle

Rudy R. Lyle (March 17, 1930 – February 11, 1985) was an American bluegrass banjo player, mostly known for being a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in the period 1949–1954.

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Scottish Americans

Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots-American) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland.

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Sing Out!

Sing Out! was a quarterly journal of folk music and folk songs that was published from May 1950 through spring 2014.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Springfield, Tennessee

Springfield is a city in and the county seat of Robertson County, which is located in Middle Tennessee on the northern border of the state.

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Sun Records

Sun Records is an American independent record label founded by Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee in 1950.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.

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The Stanley Brothers

The Stanley Brothers were an American bluegrass duo of singer-songwriters and musicians made up of brothers Carter Stanley (1925–1966) and Ralph Stanley (1927–2016).

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The Strangers (American band)

The Strangers is an American country band best known as the back-up band for singer-songwriter Merle Haggard.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Illinois Press

The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is a major American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system.

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Vassar Clements

Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was a Grammy Award-winning American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler.

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Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in time, performed primarily in closed position.

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Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Monroe

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