Bill Monroe

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer

Category: Early Influence

Inducted: 1997

Inducted by: Ricky Skaggs and Emmylou Harris

Snubbed Members: Bill "Cousin Wilbur" Wesbrooks, Art Wootten, Clyde Moody, David "Stringbean" Akeman, Robert "Chubby" Wise, Wilene "Sally Ann" Forrester, Howard "Cedric Rainwater" Watts, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Joel Price, Claude "Jackie" Phelps, Rudy Lyle, Jimmy Martin, Gordon Terry, Bessie Lee Mauldin, Charlie Cline, Joe Stuart, Kenny Baker, Horace “Benny” Williams, James Monroe

Country Music Hall of Fame: 1970

Induction Ceremony Songs:

SongPerformed By
Blue Moon of Kentucky  Emmylou Harris and Ricky Skaggs
Get Up John  Emmylou Harris
Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 1995 (ranked #27 in the Influences - Pre-Rock Era category) .
Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Mule Skinner Blues (1940)☆☊
Blue Moon of Kentucky (1946)☆☊
Kentucky Waltz (1946)☆☊
Rocky Road Blues (1946)☆☊

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