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Bill Monroe: "Well, some fellers didn't know much to start with."

Dave Marsh, Musician, October 1994

IT'S NOT every day that I get to talk to somebody who invented a whole style of music. When you developed what became bluegrass, was it something that happened out of musical necessity, or just a new way of using the elements you heard around you?

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