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Blue Grass Boys

American music group

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founding by Monroe

In Bill Monroe
Bill’s second band, the Blue Grass Boys (his first, called the Kentuckians, played together for only three months), auditioned for the Grand Ole Opry on radio station WSM in Nashville, Tenn., and became regular performers on that program in 1939.
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history of country music

In country music
… and his string band, the Blue Grass Boys, discarded more recently adopted rhythms and instruments and brought back the lead fiddle and high harmony singing. His banjoist, Earl Scruggs, developed a brilliant three-finger picking style that brought the instrument into a lead position. Their music, with its driving, syncopated rhythms…
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role of Scruggs

In Earl Scruggs
…1945, he joined Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys. The group became the prototypical bluegrass band and was often heard on the Grand Ole Opry radio show.
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