Bill Monroe

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Bill Monroe , of its complete name William Smith Monroe (September 13rd, 1911 - September 9th, 1996) developed the kind of music known under the name of Bluegrass ( blue Herbe in English), which draws its name from the group of Bill, Blue Grass Servant boys, thus named in the honor of the Country of origin of Bill Monroe, the Kentucky. Monroe had a career covering an about sixty years as a singer, instrumentalist, type-setter and a team leader. It was a long time called Father off Bluegrass .

Career

Bill Monroe was born with Rosine in the Kentucky, where seem-you it grass takes a bluish color with laying down sun. His/her father was a farm laborer while his/her mother, of Dutch origin, came from the poor classes. It and his/her brother Pendleton " Pen" Vandiver were good musicians and initiated the William young person with the American traditional music. Later, Bill Monroe devoted a song to his/her uncle: Uncle PEN .

The career of Bill started in the Thirties, when it founded a trio, with his/her brothers Birch and Charlie, The Monroe Brothers close to Hammond, in the Indiana where they worked in an oil refinery. In 1939, when the brothers separated, after having to record an about sixty pieces, Bill created the first group of Blue Grass Servant boys. As mandolin player, Monroe introduced with virtuosity the Mandoline into the landscape of the Country music. In 1945, Earl Scruggs joined the group as a player of Banjo. This first version of Fatty Blue Servant boys also including the guitarist/singer To ballast Flatt, Chubby Wise with the violin and Howard Watts with low made the first recordings of a particular kind of music called Bluegrass. This group burst when Flatt and Scruggs left it to form their own group The Foggy mountain servant boys .

Monroe replaced them quickly, recruiting Jimmy Martin with the guitar and Rudy Lyle with the banjo, adding even two violonists to the formation: Blackbird " Red" Taylor and Charlie Cline. This group recorded in particular, the pieces One and One , Memories off Mother and Dad , Uncle PEN , Bluegrass ramble or Rawhide .

In 1954, Elvis Presley records off the title Blue moon Kentucky opposite B its first piece at Sun Records. Declining with the development of the Rock' roll, Bill Monroe, with all the country music, did not turn any more but with one instrumentalist, Charlie Cline (others being separated from the group to join the movement Rockabilly, synthesis of country music and rock'n'roll) and of the instrumentalists whom it sporadically recruited in his towns of round. However the folk boom of the years 1960 (magazine by Bob Dylan or Joan Baez), any acoustics, gives again with the bluegrass a new unexpected youth. Bill Monroe, whose rigid character will put up rather badly with this recognition of the northerner public (undoubtedly secretly hated) for his music, will remain a long time in margin of this phenomenon. But the sincere enthusiasm of these neophytes ends up being right of its reserves. Remaking surface on the front of the scene, reforming new Blue Grass Servant boys with musicians not being origin Southerner such as Bill Keith and Peter Rowan, which gives to this version the nickname of " Northern" Bill Monroe, after an outstanding performance with the Newport Folk Festival of 1963 at the side of Doc. Watson, takes again his dimension of father of the bluegrass near this northerner and international public, as the movement folk overflows of the American borders and invades the whole world. It will not consequently any more cease recording until its death, dominating of its intransigent personality, even obstinate, an art which ensured to him a place of founding father venerated and somewhat dreaded by its very many disciples.

In 1976, Bill Monroe poses for the first time so that the painter Kenneth Hari. A series of more than 25 portraits of the singer will follow, all with the wire of its career.

In all, more than 150 musicians played with Bill Monroe, which was introduced into the Country Music Hall off Famed in 1970, International Bluegrass Music Hall off Famed in 1991 and the Rock' Roll Hall off Famed in 1994 (as a paramount influence). It is the only artist to be appeared in the three categories. Barded honor at the end of its life, it influenced the American music enormously and its title most known Blue moon off Kentucky was taken again by Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney or Patsy Cline. It mourrut with Springfield, in the Tennessee, in September 1996.

Selective discography

  • The essential Bill Monroe and his Fatty Blue Servant boys (1945-1949) (Columbia C2K-52478)
  • Bill Monroe. Bluegrass 1950-1958 (Bear family BCD 15423)
  • Bill Monroe. Bluegrass 1959-1969 (Bear family BCD 11529-4)
  • Bill Monroe. Bluegrass 1970-1979 (Bear family BCD 15606)

External bond

  • Biography

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