Sing Out!, March 22nd, 2002
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 musical innovator in books by Neil V. Rosenberg, James Rooney, Robert Cantwell and the excellent general histories of bluegrass and country music by historians Charles Wolfe and Bill C. Malone.
Only recently, however, has Monroe's off-stage life come under scrutiny. Last year, the first comprehensive "warts-and-all" biography, Can't You Hear Me Ca...
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