Bill Monroe didn’t invent bluegrass music, but he refined it and is the person most often referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass.” The classic instrumentation includes upright bass, banjo, fiddle, ...

You may know recognize the name from the O' Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack (he did O Death and origianlly wrote Man of Constant Sorrow) but Dr. Stanely is actually a pioneering force of the genre.

His updated version of an old-timey approach enhanced recordings by everyone from Bill Monroe to the Rolling Stones. By Bill Friskics-Warren Byron Berline, the acclaimed bluegrass fiddle player who ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...