The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24226 Message #275327
Posted By: Peter T.
10-Aug-00 - 05:22 PM
Thread Name: review of bio of Bill Monroe
Subject: RE: review of bio of Bill Monroe
Pulling down Dawidoff from the shelf: -- According to Dawidoff (first sentences from his quoted interview with Scruggs), Scruggs said '"He went several years without speaking to us. That all went away. I consider Bill as my friend now." It was precisely 21 years before they had a conversation.' (p.124)
If this is a false story, it certainly is persistent.