M.Ted

I kind of agree and disagree. In one sense, bluegrass music as we know it really can't exist at all without Bill Monroe. On the other hand, by today's standards, it is much more.

I really don't care what bluegrass "owes itself to. For that matter, I really don't care what jazz, rags, minstrel tunes, and 19th century pop music owes itself to, which I am sure is something else pre-dating that.