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    • Jul 17, 1986
    Guitarist Cleo Davis dies following a battle with cancer. He was the first band member Bill Monroe hired for his Blue Grass Boys in August 1938, though he remained with the group a scant two years
    Aug 9, 1986
    The U.S. Senate passes a resolution recognizing Bill Monroe as the "creator, shaper, performer and promoter" of bluegrass music
    Aug 17, 1986
    Ricky Skaggs' son, Andrew, is shot in the neck by a truck driver, Edward Duehring, after the boy's mother, Brenda, passed Duehring's tractor-trailer on Interstate 81 near Troutville, Virginia. Duehring felt she cut back into his lane too soon
    Sep 8, 1986
    Epic releases Ricky Skaggs' "Love's Gonna Get You Someday"
    Sep 11, 1986
    Epic releases Ricky Skaggs' album "Love's Gonna Get Ya!"
    Oct 6, 1986
    Fiddler Art Wooten dies in Sparta, North Carolina. A former member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, he played on Monroe's version of "Orange Blossom Special"
    Apr 6, 1987
    Epic Records releases "Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This," Ricky Skaggs' duet with Sharon White
    May 3, 1987
    Fiddler Merle Franklin "Red" Taylor dies of cancer at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Saltillo. He made his mark as a member of Little Jimmy Dickens' band, playing on "Hillbilly Fever" and "A-Sleeping At The Foot Of The Bed." Taylor also appeared on Bill Monroe's "Uncle Pen"
    Aug 1, 1987
    Fiddler Howard "Howdy" Forrester dies of cancer in Nashville. He was a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in the 1940s and Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys in the '50s, and played on hits by Hank Thompson and Kitty Wells
    Aug 15, 1987
    Rounder releases Alison Krauss' debut album, "Too Late To Cry"



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