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    • Apr 8, 1958
    Bill Monroe records the instrumental "Scotland" at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville. A version of the song by Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers, featuring Monroe as a guest, will be used in episode eight of the 2019 PBS series "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns"
    Dec 1, 1958
    Bill Monroe records "Gotta Travel On" in Nashville
    Dec 28, 1958
    Decca releases Bill Monroe's "Gotta Travel On"
    Dec 12, 1959
    During an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, Bill Monroe is presented with divorce papers filed by the former Carolyn Brown, who charges he's had an affair with bass player Bessie Lee Mauldin since 1941
    Aug 12, 1960
    The former Carolyn Brown is granted a divorce from Bill Monroe. The judge stipulates that Monroe cannot marry Bessie Lee Mauldin, with whom he shares a home in Tennessee, during his ex-wife's lifetime
    Aug 14, 1960
    Watermelon Park in Berryville, Maryland, hosts the first all-day, multiple-act bluegrass festival. The lineup features Bill Monroe, Mac Wiseman, Reno & Smiley, The Osborne Brothers and fiddler Scotty Stoneman
    Jul 4, 1961
    A semi-private feud becomes public when Carter Stanley tells a crowd in Luray, Virginia, that Flatt & Scruggs refused to play the All Day Bluegrass Festival because The Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe were there
    Nov 29, 1961
    The Grand Ole Opry comes to Carnegie Hall, with Patsy Cline, Grandpa Jones, Bill Monroe, Minnie Pearl, Marty Robbins, Jim Reeves, Faron Young and The Jordanaires. The performance benefits the Musicians' Aid Society. In the crowd: Jimmy Dean and comic Jack Benny
    Mar 19, 1962
    Rose Maddox begins two days of recording in Nashville with Bill Monroe and Reno & Smiley. The resulting "Rose Maddox Sings Bluegrass" is the first bluegrass album recorded by a woman
    Jun 24, 1962
    Bill Monroe brushes off a journalist at Sunset Park in West Grove, Pennsylvania. It's a less than auspicious first meeting with the man who will become the manager that revives Monroe's career, Ralph Rinzler
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