Bill Monroe

Celebrating the Big Mon (Sep 2000)

At the end of "Big Mon," a new collection by Ricky Skaggs and a host of high-powered guests celebrating the music of Bill Monroe, a mass of fiddlers, mandolin players and guitarists take a spirited romp through the title track, one of the Father of Bluegrass's most famous instrumentals. To anyone familiar with bluegrass festivals, it inevitably brings to mind the finales many of them end with, in which all of the artists who appeared gather on stage for a closing number.   ...