“Bill Monroe killed bluegrass. Most people would have you believe that he's the genre's undisputed *pater familias* and there would be no such thing as bluegrass without him. Well, that's true too, but he's also responsible for its lack of vitality as an art form, its stagnation, and its relegation to the museum to gather dust.
He did this by defining it too specifically, by stating (both verbally”
