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    • Oct 4, 1954
    Decca releases Bill Monroe's hyper-charged remake of his own bluegrass classic "Blue Moon Of Kentucky"
    Nov 16, 1954
    Jimmy Martin records "20/20 Vision" with The Osborne Brothers in Nashville. The bluegrass classic is ranked among the 500 greatest country singles in history in the Country Music Foundation's 2003 book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Dec 31, 1954
    Bill Monroe records "Wheel Hoss" in Nashville. Ricky Skaggs wins a Grammy award in 1985 for his recording of the song
    Jan 1, 1955
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs move to Nashville to make regular appearances on WSM's radio and television stations, and the Grand Ole Opry
    Jan 27, 1955
    Cheryl White, of The Whites, is born in Wichita Falls, Texas. The family trio earns bluegrass-influenced hits with "Hangin' Around," "You Put The Blue In Me" and "Give Me Back That Old Familiar Feeling." They join the Grand Ole Opry in 1984
    May 14, 1955
    Dobro player Uncle Josh Graves auditions for Flatt & Scruggs' Foggy Mountain Boys. He remains with the group until Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs split in 1969, continuing to work for Flatt
    Sep 2, 1955
    Dobro player Josh Graves records with Flatt & Scruggs for the first time
    Sep 16, 1955
    Bill Monroe holds a recording session in Nashville using three fiddlers: Vassar Clements, Bobby Hicks and Gordon Terry. It marks the first of 31 sessions in which he employs his mistress, Bessie Lee Mauldin, on bass
    Oct 3, 1955
    Earl Scruggs suffers a fractured hip in an early-morning automobile accident 15 miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee. Also injured in the crash are his wife, Louise, and sons Gary and Randy Scruggs
    Oct 17, 1955
    Decca releases Bill Monroe's "Wheel Hoss." Ricky Skaggs turns the song into a Grammy-winner in the 1980s



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