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Blue Grass Boy: the Story of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass Music
Barb Rosenstock
Item #:
9781629794396
Price:
$17.95
This picture book explores the life of Bill Monroe, the founding artist of the American musical genre known as bluegrass. Even though Bill Monroe’s eyes didn't work right, his ears worked overtime, hearing all sorts of sounds near his treasured Kentucky home. Despite hard times, Bill held the echoes of the hills and hollows close and learned to play them on a mandolin. When he moved to Chicago, he heard whistles, be-bop, and big bands. Bill discovered that the banjo was the perfect instrument to bring all those sounds together, and his band, the Blue Grass Boys, took off. Accompanied by bold illustrations, Bill Monroe’s tale shows one artist’s desire to share the sounds of his boyhood in a way that changed popular music forever. The book includes a bibliography, timeline, archival images, research notes, and the lyrics to Monroe’s masterpiece "Uncle Pen".
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