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| Theoretical physicists maintain that our universe began with a "big bang", a monumental explosion which released all matter, space, and time in an ever-growing and expanding body we now call the universe. I find it quite appropriate to apply the Big Bang concept to bluegrass music, since before our "Big Bang", there was no such music, at least anywhere in our known universe. The "Big Bang I am referring to is, of course, the split-up of a musical group billed as The Monroe Brothers, formed in 1932 and who broke up in early-1938. The 1930s were a great time for brother acts, mostly duets, and mostly featuring close harmony singing with guitars or guitar and mandolin. These duos tended to supplant the larger string bands from the 1920s – traveling was easier, and there were less ways that gig money had to be split up during those hard depression days. |  Bill Monroe / Charlie Monroe |
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