Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
Summer 1961
Meeting Monroe: June–July 1961
Bean Blossom: 1961
House Band: July–August 1961
Meeting the Audience: July 1961
Playing the Five: 1953–June 1961
Letters to Home: August 1961
Meeting the Regulars: August 1961
Bloomington: July–August 1961
Fall 1961
Monroe Again: September 1961
Autumn Work: September–October 1961
Stepping Up: October 1961
Connections: October 1961
White House Blues: October 1961
End of the Season: November 1961
Cannonball Blues: December 1961
Spring 1962
Meeting Marvin Hedrick: January–June 1962
College Kids: March 1962–May 1962
Summer 1962
Back to the Jamboree: July–August 1962
Folk in Bloomington: July–September 1962
Fall 1962
Mocking Bird Hill: September 1962
Folk and Country: October 1962
College Folk, Bluegrass, Banjo Necks: November 1962
Spring 1963
On the Road: January–March 1963
Spring Pickin’: April 1963
Reno & Smiley: April 1963
Stonemans, Banjo Contest: May 1963
Summer 1963
Meeting Ralph Rinzler: June 1963
Ralph Fires Birch: June 1963
A Business Model: June–July 1963
Bobby Hits the Barn: June 1963
Two Country Sundays: July 1963
Conversations with Ralph: July 1963
Week 6 and the Letter: July–August 1963
Mandolin Sunday: August 1963
Berkeley Bluegrass: August–September 1963
Marvin Takes Over: August–September 1963
Fall 1963
Back to the Barn: September 1963
Monroe Day: September–October 1963
Bluegrass HQ: October–November 1963
Bean Blossom Hop: November 1963
Last Report to Ralph: November–December 1963
After the Jamboree: 1964–1967
Afterword
Recordings, Bibliography, and Notes
Recordings
Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Index