Bluegrass for me begins with the first recordings Bill Monroe made with Earl Scruggs. We'll hear that initial tune and some additional music from Bill and the Bluegrass Boys, some classics from Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, and The Stanley Brothers. We'll have a set of brother duets and some great instrumental tunes from Kenny Baker, Chubby Wise and other great players. Honoring bluegrass pioneers … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Ron Stewart / “Stewart's Dream” / Time Stands Still / Rounder

Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys / “Heavy Traffic Ahead” / The Essential Bill Monroe & his Bluegrass Boys / Columbia

Bill Monroe / “Footprints in the Snow” / In The Pines / County

Bill Monroe & his Bluegrass Boys / “Blue Moon of Kentucky” / Grand Old Opry Live Classics / Cracker Barrel-Opry Classics

Junie Scruggs / “Sally Goodin-Sally Ann / American Banjo Scruggs and Three Finger Style / Smithsonian Folkways

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / “Pike County Breakdown” / Best of Bluegrass Vol 1 / Mercury

Flatt & Scruggs / “Til the End of the World Rolls Round” / The Essential Flatt & Scruggs / Columbia

Flatt & Scruggs / “You Are My Flower” / Recorded Live a Vanderbilt University / Columbia

The Stanley Brothers / “Little Maggie” / Earliest Recordings-Rich-R-Tone / Revenant

The Stanley Brothers / “I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow” / The Stanley Brothers 1949-52 / Bear Family

Ron Stewart / “Whistling Rufus” / Time Stands Still / Rounder

The Blue Sky Boys / “Sunny Side of Life” / There'll Come a Time / BSR

Jim & Jesse / “Are You Missing Me” / 1952-55 / Bear Family

The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / “Little Annie” / Bluegrass at the Roots / Smithsonian Folkways

The Goins Brothers / “I'm Getting Ready to Go” / Run Satan, Run / Hay Holler

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / “Tiny Broken Heart” / Won't You Come and Sing for Me / Smithsonian Folkways

Kenny Baker / “Brandywine” / Master Fiddler / County

Don Reno & Red Smiley / “Dixie Breakdown” / On The Air / Copper Creek

Chubby Wise / “Stone's Rag” / An American Original / Pinecastle

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways