Bluegrass Musician Bill Monroe Profiled From: All Things Considered (NPR) | Date: August 18, 1994 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

NPR All Things Considered

08-18-1994

BILL MONROE, Bluegrass Musician: [documentary film clip] Back in the days of my childhood, in the evening when everything was still, I used to sit and listen to the fox hounds with my dad in the old Kentucky hills.

NOAH ADAMS, Host: His father was James Buchanan Monroe; his mother Melissa Vandever [sp] Monroe. They lived in Rosene, Kentucky, down in the western part of the state, and Bill Monroe was born there on the far...

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