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May 23, 1944
Rounder Records co-founder Ken Irwin is born in New York City. His label specializes in roots music and bluegrass, launching Alison Krauss + Union Station and albums by Bela Fleck, Earl Scruggs, Steve Martin and Joe Diffie
Jun 7, 1944
Guitarist Clarence White is born in Lewiston, Maine. He joins The Byrds in 1968, staying with the pioneering country-rock band until he reforms the bluegrass Kentucky Colonels in 1973
Jul 6, 1944
Fiddler Byron Berline is born in Caldwell, Kansas. He plays with such acts as Bill Monroe and The Dillards, and takes part in the Emmylou Harris hits "If I Could Only Win Your Love" and "One Of These Days"
Jan 24, 1945
Dobro player Curtis Burch is born in Montgomery, Alabama. He appears on Norman Blake's recording of "You Are My Sunshine" in the multi-platinum "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack
Feb 13, 1945
Bill Monroe holds his first Columbia session, recording "Kentucky Waltz" and "Footprints In The Snow" at the Wrigley Building in Chicago. Chubby Wise plays fiddle, and David "Stringbean" Akeman sits in on banjo
Apr 22, 1945
Guitarist Pat Enright is born in Huntington, Indiana. He becomes a founding member of The Nashville Bluegrass Band and is also a part of the fictitious Soggy Bottom Boys, providing harmonies on the award-winning "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow"
Aug 14, 1945
Comedian Steve Martin is born in Waco, Texas. The banjo-playing "wild and crazy guy" employs The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in the role of the Toot Uncommons when he records a million-selling single, "King Tut." He also wins the International Bluegrass Music Association's Entertainer of the Year in 2011
Sep 4, 1945
Bass player Bessie Lee Mauldin marries Naval officer Nelson Gann at a private home in Franklin, Kentucky. A former--and future--lover of Bill Monroe, she plays on Monroe's 1959 hit "Gotta Travel On"
Dec 8, 1945
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs perform together on the Grand Ole Opry for the first time as members of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. The moment at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium is regarded as the birth of bluegrass
Jan 14, 1946
Columbia releases Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys' "Kentucky Waltz"
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