KNEE DEEP IN BLUE GRASS - BILL MONROE AND HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS (1958)

The mandolin-playing Monroe is known as the ‘Father Of Bluegrass’ and is forever associated with his home state of Kentucky; he famously wrote a song about its blue moon. Backed by his bluegrass boys, Knee Deep In Blue Grass was Monroe’s debut album – though he had been a star performer on the country circuit for many, many years before its release.