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    • Sep 6, 1940
    Guitarist Clyde Moody joins Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, performing in Bluefield, West Virginia. Moody remains a band member for the next four years, playing mandolin on "Mule Skinner Blues"
    Oct 7, 1940
    Bill Monroe has his first recording session with the Blue Grass Boys, at the Kimball Hotel in Atlanta, for RCA Records. Among the day's tracks: "Mule Skinner Blues"
    Mar 15, 1941
    Bill and Carolyn Monroe's second child, James William Monroe, is born
    Oct 2, 1941
    Bill Monroe records "Orange Blossom Special" at Atlanta's Kimball Hotel with Blue Grass Boy Art Wooten centerstage on fiddle. The session also includes Monroe's first recording of "In The Pines"
    Mar 4, 1943
    Bill and Carolyn Monroe buy a 44-acre farm on Dickerson Road in Nashville for the sum of $11,000
    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
    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"
    Sep 16, 1946
    Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs record for the first time with Bill Monroe in Columbia Records' Chicago studio. The day yields the original version of "Blue Moon Of Kentucky," the chart hit "Toy Heart" and "Mansions For Me"
    Sep 17, 1946
    Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys, including Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, record "Wicked Path Of Sin" at Chicago's Columbia Studios
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