Songster Bob

Just a little nit-picking. The Bristol sessions in 1927 were for Victor not Columbia. Amazing the amount of first class music recorded.

Re Monroe being uptight with Flatt & Scruggs when they left for "stealing his trade mark". If I'm not mistaken the term 'bluegrass'(assuming that that is the trade mark to which you refer) was not in general use then to describe the music, this came a few years later and F & S didn't use that term to describe their band at the time. I'm sure that Monroe realised that it was Scruggs's banjo (he having replaced Dave 'Stringbean' Akeman) that gave his group the distinctive sound that came to epitomise what we have come to term Bluegrass, and that is what pissed him off. When F & S formed their own group they did not use mandolin and subsequently introduced the Dobro. Their harmony singing style was also somewhat different.