The film pays tribute to the 'Godfather of Bluegrass' Bill Monroe with interviews and performances from 50 different musicians.
, which airs Friday night nationally on PBS stations. The two-hour film traces the history of the American genre, beginning with the influence of Scottish, Irish and African-American communities on bluegrass with recordings and performance footage showcasing the genre Skaggs helped popularize to a much larger audience.
Much of the film focuses on Monroe, a Kentucky-born mandolin and guitar player, singer and songwriter who created the blue grass sound, first with his brothers Birch and Charlie and friends to form the Monroe Brothers. They eventually relocated to Chicago and then to Nashville, where Monroe joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1939 and solidified his place in music history as the “Father of Bluegrass.”
The film follows the blue grass musical movement through Great Depression, World War II and the civil rights movement as well as the commercial success of blue grass stars like Skaggs, whose uptempo sound led to 11 No.
"I was the black sheep and it got really bad. Part of it was jealousy, but Monroe and the fathers of the music really embraced what I was doing and were talented enough to hear through the steel guitars and electric guitars that bluegrass music was in my heart,” he says.
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