Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 21—When speaking to country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs, there are many things to talk about, but not enough time to ...

My favorite family heirloom is a bowl-back mandolin made by Lyon and Healy of Chicago. Its graceful curves and decorations inlaid in alternating wood strips sat atop my mother’s piano all through my ...

Bill Monroe holds up his 1923 Gibson F-5 mandolin on Feb. 25, 1986, for the first time since it was damaged by vandals in November 1985. Scores of Gibson employees gathered at the firm’s plant on ...

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 ...

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

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.

Garth Brooks inducts Ricky Skaggs into the Country Music Hall of Fame, but both get upstaged by Bill Monroe's mandolin when the priceless instrument is placed in Skaggs' hands to play Nancy Kruh is a ...

Biographical and historical notes by Ralph Rinzler, and musical personnel listed on container. Performer(s): Performed by Bill Monroe, vocals and mandolin; with the Blue Grass Boys. Production notes: ...

The Bluegrass Hall of Fame member played fast without sacrificing the genre's melodic core, and improvised with a sense of humor. By Steve Knopper In 1968, while square-dancing during his boss Bill ...