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    • Oct 15, 1996
    Sugar Hill releases the tribute album "True Life Blues: The Songs Of Bill Monroe," produced by Todd Phillips
    Oct 25, 1996
    Ricky Skaggs is given the keys to Bill Monroe's former locker backstage at the Grand Ole Opry House
    Apr 17, 1997
    Nashville's Ryman Auditorium hosts a benefit concert to raise money for a monument to Bill Monroe. On the bill: Marty Stuart, Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley, Connie Smith, Mark O'Connor, Del McCoury and Ricky Skaggs
    Apr 25, 1997
    Bill Monroe's headstone is dedicated in Rosine, Kentucky: "Walk softly around this grave for my father Bill Monroe rests here as the blue moon of Kentucky shines on"
    May 15, 1997
    Bill Monroe is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Cleveland, alongside Joni Mitchell, The Jackson 5, The Bee Gees, King Records founder Syd Nathan, Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash
    Feb 24, 1998
    Roy Acuff's "Wabash Cannonball," The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken," The Carter Family's "Can The Circle Be Unbroken (Bye And Bye)," Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" and Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" enter the Grammy Hall of Fame
    Sep 11, 2000
    NPR hails Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" among the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century
    Mar 7, 2001
    The Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts cite 365 titles as Songs of the Century, including Bill Monroe's bluegrass classic "Blue Moon Of Kentucky"
    Apr 25, 2001
    The Bill Monroe Foundation in Rosine, Kentucky, purchases his 1923 Gibson F-5 mandolin for $1.125 million
    May 26, 2001
    Restoration begins in Rosine, Kentucky, on Bill Monroe's home. Members of the Blue Grass Boys are on hand to help drive the ceremonial first nail
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