On Sunday night (Oct. 21), Ricky Skaggs joined the Country Music Hall of Fame, as part of the organization's Class of 2018. His musical mentor, the "Father of Bluegrass," Bill Monroe, died more than ...

OWENSBORO, Ky. — Visitors to the International Bluegrass Music Museum in this western Kentucky city will get a special treat: A look at the 1964 Gibson mandolin that once belonged to bluegrass legend ...

Sep. 7—Historians of bluegrass music say that Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass," bought his famed 1923 Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 mandolin at a barber shop in Florida in the 1940s. But Jerry Ashley, ...

Bill Monroe's battered and scarred mandolin, the instrument on which a new American musical genre was created, is going to Monroe's birthplace in Kentucky as a million-dollar mandolin. A newly endowed ...

Bill Monroe; Recorded Backstage At Grand Old Opry; Peter Rowan, Don Lineberger, James Monroe, Bill Monroe Tape Original; Tape Showing Age; Tape 10 Of 10 102 Grey Eagle / Bill Monroe, Peter Rowan.