Bill Monroe Remembered by Alison Krauss & Vince Gill

At the 30 Years of CMA celebration, Alison & Vince play a song for Old Bill, who died the month before. As broadcasted by the BBC, october the 5th, 1996. From the same old betamax tapes.
1996
• "The 30th Annual CMA Awards" was the second highest rated special out of 212 aired during the 1996-1997 television season, ranking only behind the Oscars.
• The broadcast earned CBS Television its highest-rated Wednesday night in two years, propelling CBS to a first-place rating for the night and for the week.
• Brooks & Dunn become the first duo in history to win Entertainer of the Year.
• George Strait won Male Vocalist of the Year, an honor he last received 10 years prior. He also took home Awards for Album and Single of the Year.
• Patsy Montana, Buck Owens and Ray Price were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• Hosted by Vince Gill, the broadcast was opened by newcomer LeAnn Rimes with her breakout hit "Blue."
• Wynonna was joined by pop star Michael Bolton for a duet.
• For the first time, a retail campaign was launched in the UK, and the CMA Awards were broadcast live on BBC Radio 2.

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[BillReef]

Everyone loves Allison. She is the most sought after duet partner in music today and she obliges humbly.

[dennisisms]

Since then Allison has turned into a raving beauty

[deliano2]

Great music by fine & very decent musicians. Trashy dirt-throwers like 1pupblacky cannot smear them. Top-level bluegrass!!

[justfukoff88]

@1pupblacky the king taught monroe how to sing

[1pupblacky]

who could ever trust this man again--not that he could have said i love amy instead of his wife. just be honest . we who lived in nashville knew it was just the garth/trisha thing all over again

[1pupblacky]

it makes me sick to see allison and vince with his affair with amy grant for at least 10 years to give a tribute to a mean old man bill monroe who blacklisted so many great bluegrass singers (jimmy martin) from the grand ole opry) shame on you both

[bkglamb]

@BillReef There are a couple reasons for that. 1. She has the greastest voice ever. 2. Her talents shine even more when she is collaberating with someone. And if you don't believe me, just listen to 'Redsands'.

[bluegrassrle]

One of my favorite songs

[llawrencemajors]

I miss you...

[buchananstreet]

new what? only blue is true ! she got discovered  by monroe himself ! that man sure knew what he was doing !

[jguitar28]

This is a great tune, Bill was a close dear friend to me growing up and I'm sure he would have said something like now that is a powerful number...:-)

[TheZakita]

hay that song is rock both of them are awesome but i wish that both of them sing a song with brad paisley i can till you from now that will be great