Seldom can a particular genre of music be credited to the vision and influence of a lone individual as is the case with Bill Monroe and Bluegrass. In a career spanning over half a century, "The Father of Bluegrass" created, popularized,...

For the retired NBC News correspondent of the same name, see Bill Monroe...

Though he was known as "the father of bluegrass music", Bill Monroe, who died on Monday only days before his 85th birthday, did not invent the genre. But like the moment when Louis Armstrong let rip on "West End Blues" and "invented" the jazz...

The Bill Monroe Reader By Tom Ewing University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 2000, 302 pages, ISBN 0252025008, hbk., $29.95 As the only musician to have founded a musical subgenre, Monroe, who died in 1996 at age 84, figures prominently as a...

Rhonda Vincent & the Rage received 12 nominations Thursday from the International Bluegrass Music Association, including entertainer of the year.Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver picked up nine nominations, individually and collectively, while Alison Krauss & Union Station, the Del McCoury Band and Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky...

Rhonda Vincent & the Rage have received 12 nominations from the International Bluegrass Music Association, including entertainer of the year.Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver picked up nine nominations, individually and collectively, while Alison Krauss & Union Station, the Del McCoury Band and Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky...