Traditional Ties, SPECIAL PRESENTATION, 09/11/11, Playlist

This Sunday's TTies will be a special presentation. We will open with a short commemoration of the tragedy of 9/11/2001. The balance of the show will be a celebration of Bill Monroe, just two days before the 100th anniversary of his birth. We will cover the mid 1940's when the bluegrass sound was defined. The Gospel segment will all be taken from the first Bluegrass Gospel LP from 1958, featuring the Bluegrass Quartet. Most of hour two will be a live concert from 1963 when Del McCoury and Brad (Bill) Keith were Blue Grass Boys.

 

Air Time	Artist Name	Song Title	Album Name	Label	Duration
10:00 AM	Kenny Baker	Jerusalem Ridge (theme)	Plays Bill Monroe	County	2:00
10:03 PM	Doug Bartlett	Mama, Will You Call My Daddy	Mama, Will You Call My Daddy	Mastershield	3:46
10:08 PM	Bill Monroe	True Life Blues	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	2:47
10:11 PM	Bill Monroe	Nobody Loves Me	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	2:36
10:13 PM	Bill Monroe	Goodbye Old Pal	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	2:39
10:16 PM	Bill Monroe	Blue Grass Special	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	2:27
10:20 PM	Bill Monroe	Heavy Traffic Ahead	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	2:17
10:23 PM	Bill Monroe	Summertime Is Past and Gone	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	2:52
10:26 PM	Bill Monroe	I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	2;54
10:29 PM	Bill Monroe	It's Mighty Dark to Travel	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	2:49
10:32 PM	Bill Monroe	Blue Grass Breakdown	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	2:14
10:36 PM	Bill Monroe	Precious Memories	I Saw the Light	Universal	3;15
10:39 PM	Bill Monroe	House of Gold	I Saw the Light	Universal	2:08
10:41 PM	Bill Monroe	Life's Railway to Heaven	I Saw the Light	Universal	2:50
10:44 PM	Bill Monroe	Lord Lead Me On	I Saw the Light	Universal	2:27
10:47 PM	Bill Monroe	I've Found a Hiding Place	I Saw the Light	Universal	2:26
10:50 PM	Bill Monroe	Jesus Hold My Hand	I Saw the Light	Universal	2:30
10:52 PM	Bill Monroe	I Saw the Light	I Saw the Light	Universal	2:30
10:55 PM	Bill Monroe	I'll Meet You in the Morning	I Saw the Light	Universal	2:13
10:57 PM	Bill Monroe	Just a Little Talk with Jesus	I Saw the Light	Universal	2:28
11:00 PM	Kenny Baker	Fiddler's Dream	Plays Bill Monroe	County	1:55
11:04 PM	Bill Monroe	Watermellon Hanging on the Vine	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	1:14
11:05 PM	Bill Monroe	Panhandle Country	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:05
11:07 PM	Bill Monroe	On and On	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:19
11:07 PM	Bill Monroe	Dark Hollow	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:19
11:12 PM	Bill Monroe	Devil's Dream	Live At Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:34
11:15 PM	Bill Monroe	Love's Gonna Live Here	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:04
11:17 PM	Bill Monroe	Dreaming of a Little Cabin	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:41
11:20 PM	Bill Monroe	Muleskinner Blues	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:32
11:23 PM	Bill Monroe	Footprints in the Snow	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	1:52
11:24 PM	Bill Monroe	Blue Moon of Kentucky	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:16
11:27 PM	Bill Monroe	Rawhide	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:31
11:29 PM	Bill Monroe	John Henry	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:44
11:32 PM	Bill Monroe	I Saw the Light	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:12
11:35 PM	Bill Monroe	What Would You Give in Exchange	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	4:58
11:40 PM	Bill Monroe	Uncle Pen	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:35
11:43 PM	Bill Monroe	Blue Ridge Mountain Blues	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	2:25
11:45 PM	Bill Monroe	Y'All Come	Live at Mechanics Hall	Acoustic Disc	1:03
11:47 PM	Bill Monroe	Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	2:45
11:50 PM	Bill Monroe	Can't You Hear Me Calling	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	3:16
11:54 PM	Bill Monroe	Travilin' this Open Road	16 Gems	Columbia Legacy	3:10
11:57 PM	Kenny Baker	Stoney Lonesome	Plays Bill Monroe	County	3:06

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Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys, 'Christmas Times a Coming'

Merry Christmas to all.

'Huge' Monroe centennial celebrations planned

By KEITH LAWRENCE - Messenger-Inquirer

 ROSINE, Ky. -- When William Smith Monroe was born on Sept. 13, 1911, few people other than the neighbors of James Buchanan "Buck" and Malissa Vandiver Monroe were aware of it.

After all, the baby, named for two of his uncles, was the eighth child born into the farm family on Ohio County's Jerusalem Ridge.


It was hardly news that Malissa Monroe was having another baby.


But the 100th anniversary of the birth of the man known as the "father of bluegrass music" will be a major event in Rosine, his hometown, and Owensboro, where an emergency appendectomy in 1921 saved Monroe's life.


"I think it's going to be very big for us," Karen Miller, executive director of the Owensboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau, said recently. Full story here

Owensboro, Ky., Convention and Visitors Bureau Launches Bill Monroe Centennial Site

It's not every day that a musical genre is born, and certainly not one that spreads and takes hold like Bluegrass music. Bill Monroe, the "Father of Bluegrass Music," would turn 100 years old in 2011. His life and legacy will be commemorated with the Bill Monroe 100th Birthday Celebration, a collection of festivals and events taking place throughout the year in and around Owensboro, Ky.



The Owensboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau, promoters of the celebration, launched the Web site http://billmonroe100birthday.com/ to honor the legendary musical artist.



Searching for "ancient tones" to bring to his music, Bill Monroe created the style that came to be known as Bluegrass and something magical happened.



The combination of African-American Blues, southern Gospel, with fiddle and bagpipe from the British Isles, hill country dance romps and hot improvisational jazz riffs became a passionate, inspirational form of music loved by people all over the globe.



The http://billmonroe100thbirthday.com/ site is a comprehensive guide to the centennial celebration of Bill Monroe's life, listing the numerous events that will take place in Owensboro next September, the month of his birth.



Notable events include reunion performances by the Pioneers and the Bluegrass Boys at the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro on September 13, Monroe's birthday.



The Bill Monroe Birthday Party on the Lawn will take place September 13 in Rosine, Ky., where Monroe was born.



Additionally, http://billmonroe100thbirthday.com/ features a biography of Bill Monroe and numerous tidbits of his accomplished life. The site lists the numerous bluegrass festivals that will take place in Kentucky in 2011 – a testimony to the heritage of Bill Monroe's creation.



An images section includes historic photographs and an art gallery of Bill Monroe-inspired fine art available to buy from the International Bluegrass Music Museum. The site also features a wealth of Web site links to further explore the Owensboro region and its traditions of bluegrass music and deliciously distinctive barbecue.



"Bill Monroe's creation has profoundly influenced modern music and the lives of people all over the world," said Karen Miller, Executive Director of the Owensboro–Daviess County Convention and Visitor's Bureau. "Bluegrass music is undoubtedly one of the most valuable contributions to American culture, and we are proud to honor one of the great men to hail from Western Kentucky."



The http://billmonroe100thbirthday.com/ site was developed by Red Pixel Studios of Owensboro.



The Owenboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau strives to promote Bluegrass music and its heritage. Located at 215 East Second Street in downtown Owensboro, Ky., and on the Web at http://www.visitowensboro.com/.



Contact:



Karen Miller



Owenboro-Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau



270-926-1100



kmiller@visitowensboro/

Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys Converge In Kentucky

Owensboro, Ky., is home to the International Bluegrass Museum and the site of the Blue Grass Boys' musical reunion.

"It's just like you going to a family reunion. I mean, we're all in the same family," Guy Stevenson says. "We was all taught by the same teacher."


Stevenson played with the Blue Grass Boys in 1973. Over the years, there were countless incarnations of the group that backed up Bill Monroe's singing and mandolin-picking. Between its formation at the start of WWII and Monroe's death in 1996, about 175 Blue Grass Boys wore the band's signature Stetson hats. This summer, the International Bluegrass Museum's annual ROMP Festival hosted a reunion for 29 of them. Before ROMP, many of those had never shared a stage together.


Monroe's band included some of the best bluegrass pickers, but not everyone was well-known when they first joined the group. Some couldn't even really play the instruments they were hired to play. Scottie Baugus, for instance, was 29 when Monroe tapped him to sing and play guitar. He had never before worked as a professional musician.


Once he was hired, Baugus says things were stressful — the band hardly ever rehearsed. At his first show, he got to see the set list only 20 minutes before stepping on stage. Luckily, he already knew all the songs from Monroe's recordings. Fiddler Wayne Jerrolds joined the band in 1988; his first gig was the next night at the Grand Ole Opry.


"Man, I got in there about to have a heart attack, 'cause I always wanted to do it," Jerrolds says. "And I thought, 'This is my big chance and I'm gonna blow it; I'll freeze.' But I made it through it. I had to take about three Xanax, or I couldn't have made it, to tell you the truth."


The Father Of Bluegrass?

Some Blue Grass Boys are less... Full NPR story,

News from The International Bluegrass Music Musem

BILL MONROE EXHIBIT OPENS SEPTEMBER 10

Second of Three Exhibits for Monroe Centennial Celebration

We'll be opening our Bill Monroe Centennial Exhibit on September 10, 2010, as part of the worldwide Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration. This event takes place just three days prior to what would have been Big Mon's 99th birthday

Featured in the Bill Monroe Centennial Exhibit are many of his personal artifacts illustrating the impact of his long and eventful career. Showcased are two major artifacts never before displayed in a museum setting: Uncle Pen's fiddle and the famous headstock veneer from Bill Monroe's mandolin.



The Bill Monroe Centennial Exhibit is the second of three special shows that will be open during the two-year Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration. The Bill Monroe Centennial Art Exhibit is the first exhibit in the set, which opened to an overflowing crowd at the museum during the Blue Grass Boys Reunion on opening day of ROMP 2010. ROMP is the museum's summer cultural festival.



The third Bill Monroe Centennial Exhibit will open on his 100th birthday, September 13, 2011, and will feature artifacts of the Blue Grass Boys-those legendary members of Bill Monroe's band over many decades-as well as expand upon the Bill Monroe Centennial Exhibit.



BILL MONROE EXHIBIT TO INCLUDE RARE ARTIFACTS



Uncle Pen's Fiddle

Bluegrass musicians and fans know that this fiddle and its owner, Pendleton Vandiver, were enormously influential in Bill Monroe's life.



Uncle Pen's fiddle was acquired by one of the most instrumental people in establishing the IBMM, Terry Woodward of Owensboro, Kentucky, who has gifted the instrument to the museum for the duration of the Centennial celebration. This fiddle has been used in recent recording sessions by fiddlers Ricky Skaggs, Stuart Duncan, Fletcher Bright and Tim O'Brien, among many others, to record a soundtrack for a motion picture being made of Bill Monroe's life starring Golden Globe-nominated actor Peter Sarsgaard as Monroe, his real-life wife Maggie Gyllenhaal as Bessie Lee Mauldin, T-Bone Burnett as music director and Callie Khouri as script writer. Sounds like an Oscar-winning combination to us!!



Monroe's Famous Mandolin Headplate

The other major artifact, the original headstock veneer from Bill Monroe's world-famous Gibson 1923 F-5 Lloyd Loar mandolin, is part of a legend well-known to fans and considered by some to be the quintessential bluegrass relic. Following a disagreement with Gibson, Monroe removed the company's name from the headstock with a pocketknife, leaving only the word "The."

The veneer was auctioned at Christie's in New York City in December of 2009. The IBMM's executive director, Gabrielle Gray, made the trip from Owensboro hoping to be the top bidder and acquire the artifact for the museum. She was outbid by Laura Weber Cash, an accomplished vocalist and national award-winning fiddler, who, along with her husband, John Carter Cash, graciously agreed to place it on loan to the museum for the duration of the Centennial celebration.

More museum news, including new accuissions, possible new location for museum, and more here.

Bill Monroe Movie Update

American actor Peter Sarsgaard will star in an upcoming biographical motion picture (biopic) about the “Father of Bluegrass” Bill Monroe, the man who almost single-handedly invented a musical genre, one of very few original American music art forms: 'Bluegrass Music'.


Sarsgaard is a longtime fan of Monroe and will play the lead role. He approached script writer Callie Khouri (Thelma and Louise) about helping to rewrite the first draft of the script. Khouri is wife of musician/producer T Bone Burnett (music producer for the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou”). While the bluegrass biopic is in the early stages of development, the soundtrack is already being produced Read on.

Bill Monroe’s Life May Reach Big Screen

Bill Monroe, widely regarded as the father of bluegrass, may soon get the same sort of movie treatment that’s been given to Johnny Cash and Ray Charles.
Actor Peter Sarsgaard, known for his work in “Jarhead” and the new “Knight And Day,” is in the early stages of development in a film about the late mandolin player, according to The Wrap. Peter is apparently a big fan of Bill, who played a central role in creating and shaping the acoustic genre named after his band, the Blue Grass Boys.
Callie Khouri, who won an Oscar for writing “Thelma And Louise,” is currently rewriting the original script for the project, described as a “low-budget, ‘Walk The Line’-type project.” It’s a creative match that seems particularly appropriate. Callie’s husband is T Bone Burnett, the musical director for both “Walk The Line” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” which relied heavily on bluegrass and roots music to tell its story.

Read more.

Bill Monroe - Blue Moon Of Kentucky

Bill Monroe's mandolin continues to make history

By Keith Lawrence
Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer
(MCT)

OWENSBORO, Ky. — A 7-inch mandolin headstock veneer defaced by Bill Monroe nearly half a century ago sold at auction Dec. 3 for $37,500.
That's $5,357.15 an inch.
Christie's auction house in New York City had estimated that the piece would sell for between $5,000 and $7,000.
She wasn't the buyer, but Gabrielle Gray, executive director of the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Ky., was the last bidder to drop out before the piece of bluegrass history was sold.
"People at Christie's were shocked at the price," she said Thursday. "But it's folklore. It's one of a kind. It came from the most famous mandolin in the world. It's at the heart and soul of bluegrass music. It could have sold for $100,000."
Gray did come away from the auction with a 14 ½-inch statue that was presented posthumously to Monroe when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
More.

Peter Rowan on Bill Monroe as father figure

...bluegrass remains his touchstone no matter what musical road he's walking. It's only recently, however, that he's come to terms with Monroe's imposingly pervasive influence, a paternal role that the bandleader was loathe to let Rowan forget.

"Not long before Bill died in 1996, I was playing at Wintergrass in Washington with Old and in the Way, and he sneaks up on stage, gives me a full body block and knocks me away from the mike," Rowan recalls with a laugh. "He says, 'I taught him everything he knows! I taught him how to play. I taught him how to take a bath!' That's the way Bill was.
"For years I struggled with bluegrass being Bill Monroe's music, and for years I did my own thing based on my song-writing, based on all these influences, like Tex-Mex, reggae and rock. But I think I feel that by fertilizing this idiom, I have a role to play in this music."

Full article.

Centennial of Bill Monroe's birth will offer a big bluegrass bash

By KEITH LAWRENCE Mclatchy News Service - Published: November 28, 2009

When William Smith Monroe was born on Sept. 13, 1911, few people other than the neighbors of James Buchanan "Buck" and Malissa Vandiver Monroe knew about it.After all, the baby, named for two of his uncles, was the eighth child born into the farm family on Ohio County, Ky.'s Jerusalem Ridge.It was hardly news that Malissa Monroe was having a baby.But on Sept. 13, 2011, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Monroe is expected to make Jerusalem Ridge a tourist mecca.
And bluegrass fans from around the world are expected to flock to "Monroe Country," a 265-mile trail stretching from Nashville where the "father of bluegrass music" found fame on the Grand Ole Opry to Bean Blossom, Ind., where he launched what is now the world's longest-running bluegrass festival 43 years ago.Rosine, Ky., Monroe's birthplace and burial site, and Owensboro, Ky., home of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, are right in the middle of the trail.And both are hoping to take advantage of the Monroe Centennial.The annual Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Music Celebration, held next to Monroe's boyhood home, drew 15,000 fans from 49 states and eight countries this October, organizers say.

Full story.

Birthdays with vVdeos, 9/13

Lou Reid birthday, 1954.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wowGjkHPsYk&feature=player_embedded

Bill Monroe born 1911, died 9/9/1996.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2XT9u7iw9o

Anniversary and Birthday with Video, 9/9

Today is the anniversary of the passing of Bill Monroe, 9/9/1996. I think this is an appropriate clip to honor his memory on this day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI92oDdXazg

James King born 9/9/1958. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7r3g4Tjazw

Birthday and Anniversary, W/ Videos, 09/04

Randy Graham born 9/4/1954.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcIsXgb20-k

Bill Monroe records Blue Moon of Kentucky, 1954

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffhqOy_A8KM

Bill Monroe's Mandolin to Remain at Country Music HOF

In a settlement reached with the estate of the donor, Bill Monroe's Mandolin will remain at the Country Music Hall of Fame. The same $750,000 settlement will include Maybelle Carter's guitar. The settlement is subject to court approval. Full details in the Tennessean.

Bill Monroe Records Uncle Pen

Bill Monroe's first recording of Uncle Pen, was October 15, 1950, Decca Records.

Bill, top.
Uncle Pen, center.
Uncle Pen's restored cabin, bbottom.