Description:INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: Blue Moon of Kentucky Rising (The Beginnings to 1920); CHAPTER 2: The Big City, The Big Country (1929 to 1938); CHAPTER 3: His Own Man (1938 to 1945); Photos; CHAPTER 4: Bluegrass (1945 to 1953); CHAPTER 5: Impacts: Rock 'N' Roll, Flatt and Scruggs, Folk Music (1953 to 1961); CHAPTER 6: Renaissance: Folkies and Yankees (1962 to 1965); Photos; CHAPTER 8: Blue Moon of Kentucky Setting (1983 to 1996); EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Recommended Listening; Acknowledgments; Index.;Now in paperback: The definitive biography of the father of bluegrass, who "did what no other individual has done: invented an entire genre of music."--Chicago Tribune.