These comments were made by visitors to my web site, starting January 2000.
May 4, 2000
Name: Kelly Hoppe
Residence: Windsor, Ontario
Email: kellhop@sympatico.ca
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: George Jones
Favorite Female Artist: Tammy Wynette
Favorite Group: Bluegrass Boys
April 23, 2000
Name: Bob Dahlgren
Residence: Falconer, NY
Email: beeman@netsync.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: Charlie Moore
Favorite Group: The Lewis Family
Favorite Duo: Jim & Jessie / Osborne Brothers
Comments: Bill started a great music when he started Bluegrass. I love to sing the old songs with my Martin guitar and listen to the groups that come to Earl's Sunshine Park in Chaffi, NY.
April 20, 2000
Name: Mary Silva
Residence: California
Email: meme@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Favorite Male Artist: George Jones
Favorite Female Artist: Tammy Wynette
Favorite Duo: same as above
April 19, 2000
Name: DORSE D. D. SEARS
Residence: WEST VIRGINIA
Email: DDSEARSFROMWV@WEBTV.NET
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: WILLIAM SMITH MONROE
Favorite Female Artist: PATTY LOVELESS
Favorite Group: THE DEL McCOURY BAND
Favorite Duo: SKAGGS & RICE
Comments: MY NAME IS MR. DORSE SEARS, AND I AM A TWENTY YEAR OLD MANDOLINIST FROM THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. I SPECIALIZE IN THE STYLES OF MONROE, McCOURY, AND LAWSON. I APPRECIATE YOUR WEB SITE. I AM DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION AND INTEGRITY OF MONROE'S MUSIC.
April 10, 2000
Name: Betty Alton
Residence: Canada
Email: 703305@ican.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Bill Monroe
Favorite Female Artist: Tammy Wynette
Favorite Duo: Tammy and George
April 8, 2000
Name: Ken Kelley
Residence: Berea, KY
Email: khkpk@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: Marty Robbins
Favorite Female Artist: Patsy Cline
Favorite Group: Statler Bros.
Favorite Duo: Brooks & Dunn
April 7, 2000
Name: Ed
Residence: Miami, FL
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: Alan Jackson
Favorite Female Artist: Allison Krauss
Favorite Group: Alabama
Favorite Duo: Judds
April 2, 2000
Name: Barrie Nickerson
Residence: New Minas, Nova Scotia
Email: Barrien@glinx.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Favorite Male Artist: Elvis
Favorite Group: Beach Boys
Comments: My father in law loves bluegrass and goes to many bluegrass get togethers. He really likes Bill Monroe. He plays the bass and enjoys anything to do with Bluegrass. I am glad I found this site for him the next time he comes to visit.
April 1, 2000
Name: Jim Blazier
Residence: Martinsville, IN
Email: bonkrk@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: George Jones
Favorite Female Artist: Tanya Tucker
Favorite Group: Oakridge Boys
Favorite Duo: George & Tammy
Comments: I have a son and a brother in law who can play the guitar and banjo. I also play the bass guitar and sing gospel music for a group in Indiana called the Foundation Singers. We love any kind of bluegrass music, especially Bill's.
April 1, 2000
Name: Benson Jones
Residence: Marion, NC
Email: USAcorvette@hotmail.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Henry Whitter
Comments: I am the grandson of Henry Whitter, the first to record a country record in 1923. I have written a short biography of Mr. Whitter at
http://hometown.aol.com/bjcorvette/myhomepage/business.html
I would appreciate it if you would include this biography in your website about this early pioneer of Country music. Mr. Whitter never received the recognition that I believe was due such a country music giant of his time. You may cut and paste it to your site.
March 31, 2000
Name: Lucie
Residence: France
Email: lluucciiee@hotmail.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Group: Worlds Apart
Comments: Your website is very cool . . .
March 29, 2000
Name: Johnny Walker
Residence: Mobile, AL
Email: jhnnywalk@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
March 28, 2000
Name: Deborah Raines
Residence: Virginia
Email: littlemomma@nexet.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Jimmy Martin
Favorite Female Artist: Allison Krauss
Favorite Group: Jimmy Martin Band
Favorite Duo: Jimmy Martin / Ralph Stanley
March 28, 2000
Name: Stan Nord Connoly
Residence: Boulder, CO
Email: sncarch@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Favorite Duo: Reno & Smiley
March 28, 2000
Name: Ellis Hale
Residence: Kentucky
Email: Ehale372@cs.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Bill Monroe
Favorite Group: Foggy Mountain Boys
Favorite Duo: Stanley Brothers
Comments: It is hard to pick out any certain bluegrass band because I have always loved the old traditional bluegrass music, since I was 9 or 10 years old, and now I will soon be 50.
March 27, 2000
Name: Shirley Jones
Residence: Chester, VA
Email: Sweatpea8652@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Favorite Male Artist: Ricky Skaggs
Favorite Group: The New Tradition
Favorite Duo: Stanley Brothers
March 27, 2000
Name: Pete Ryan
Residence: New Jersey
Email: ryanpete@shu.edu
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Gram Parsons
Favorite Female Artist: Etta James
Favorite Group: Stones
Comments: Thanks for the info. I hadn't realized that Mr. Monroe had passed so recently.
March 26, 2000
Name: Bill Elrod
Residence: Jacksonville, FL
Email: welrod1@bellsouth.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: John Duffy/Bill Monroe
Favorite Female Artist: Holly Dunn
Favorite Group: James King Band
Favorite Duo: Jim & Jesse
Comments: I, like some of the others who signed the guestbook, am a BlueGrass Muscian. In fact, I have a mandolin that has the autographs's of what I think are the five best mandolin pickers to ever grace a bluegrass stage. They are Bill, John Duffy, Jesse Mc Reynolds, Doyle Lawson and Dave McLaughlin. In fact all have played it. I worked with the late great Chubby Wise here in the North Florida and Soouth Georgia area back in the 80's. I have about given up all hope with the so called country music today. It is a sickening sound as far as I am concerned. Let's go back to the OLD HILLBILLY music!
March 21, 2000
Name: Robert Utt
Email: rrutt@netzero.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Favorite Male Artist: Bill Monroe
Favorite Female Artist: Allison Kraus
Favorite Group: Stanley Brothers
Favorite Duo: Reno & Smiley
March 21, 2000
Name: Oletta Lewis
Residence: Texas
Email: oletta44@hotmail.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: George Jones
March 21, 2000
Name: Ron Woody
Residence: Chattanooga, TN
Email: ron82842@excite.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Del McCoury
Favorite Female Artist: Alison Krauss
Favorite Group: Alabama
Favorite Duo: Jim & Jessie
Comments: Great website - Great Music - Great Artist - As George would say--"who's gonna fill their shoes?" We'll miss you Bill. Long Live Bluegrass!
March 11, 2000
Name: Ron Yeatts
Residence: Kingsport, TN
Email: tnron63@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Favorite Male Artist: Eddy Arnold
Favorite Female Artist: Loretta Lynn
Favorite Group: Whites
March 11, 2000
Name: Bernice M. Arnold
Residence: Nova Scotia, Canada
Email: b.arnold@ns.sympatico.ca
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: George Jones
Favorite Female Artist: Tammy Wynette
Favorite Group: Kentucky Headhunters
Favorite Duo: George Jones and anybody
Comments: This site is a great tribute to a great man.
March 10, 2000
Name: Carolyn Dyer
Residence: Eminence, MO
Email: abby8@socket.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Comments: I am trying to compile a list of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. Do you have any sources to suggest? I haven't had a lot of success so far, your site and history of Bill Monroe has provided the most information and names that I have been able to obtain. Most of the sites give his history, but only mention Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs as band members. The history you have written is well done and I compliment you on your efforts.
March 10, 2000
Name: Patty Renner
Residence: Friendship, WI
Email: patty.renner@bestpower.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Tim McGraw
Favorite Female Artist: Trisha Yearwood
Favorite Group: Alabama
Favorite Duo: Vince Gill & Reba McEntire
Comments: I was on your web site looking for a CD of Bill Monroe's with
the song Mule Skinner Blues on it. My brother and I used to lisen
to it all the time when we were younger, and he is turning 40 this year and I would like to get it for him. When he was about 5 he would sing that song all the time.
March 6, 2000
Name: DON CLARK
Residence: ORANGE, CA.
Email: bluegrassbus@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: LESTER FLATT
Favorite Female Artist: Lynn Morris
Favorite Group: FLATT & SCRUGGS
Favorite Duo: Stanley Brothers
Comments: Great website! Please check my bus out at s-w-b-a.com -Its the Martha white bus!
March 5, 2000
Name: Colin Askew
Residence: England
Email: caja@pb2236.fsnet.co.uk
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Bill Monroe
Favorite Female Artist: Tammy Wynette
March 4, 2000
Name: Rickey Byrd
Residence: Coloma, Mi
Email: rickey levi@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: Bill Monroe
Favorite Female Artist: Tammy Wynette
Favorite Group: Rolling Stones
Favorite Duo: Donny & Marie
March 4, 2000
Name: Marit
Residence: Miami
Email: eagleblueeyes@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Hank Williams
Favorite Female Artist: Alison Krauss
Favorite Group: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Comments: Keep it up! It's hard for me being down here in Miami to get a share of the music I love so much.
February 27, 2000
Name: Jack Curtis
Residence: Fresno, CA
Email: k7tiv1@juno.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Jimmy Davis
Favorite Female Artist: Patsy Montana
Favorite Group: Sons of Pioneers
Comments: I have enjoyed Bill's music all my life and will continue to do so. Thank you Bill for all the years of great music and leadership you gave to us throughout our lifetime.
February 24, 2000
Name: John Ashe
Residence: Ontario, Canada
Email: johnnydj@bconnex.net
How do you rate my website?: Good
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Favorite Male Artist: Johnny Cash
Favorite Female Artist: Wilma Lee Cooper
Favorite Group: Bill Monroe!
Favorite Duo: The Stanley Brothers
February 22, 2000
Name: Tony Palmer
Residence: Baltimore (Macon, GA)
Email: comas@erols.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: Hank Williams Sr.& Jr.
Favorite Female Artist: Reba McEntire
Favorite Group: Gatlin Bros.
February 10, 2000
Name: John H. Wimmenauer
Residence: Brown County, IN
Email: ridgerunners@worldnet.att.net
How do you rate my website?: Good
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: John Mellencamp
Comments: Drive the Bill Monroe Memorial Highway, Indiana State Road 135 from Nashville, IN to Morgantown, IN. Beanblossom is about half way. May the wonderfull Bill Monroe Blue Grass echo through the woods, over the hills and down the hollars of our beloved Brown County forever...Thank you Mr. Monroe, you are missed by all but your music lives on.
February 9, 2000
Name: Kenny Hurlbut
Residence: Bovey, MN
Email: khurlbut@lcp2.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Merle Haggard
Favorite Female Artist: Patsy Cline
Favorite Group: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Favorite Duo: Conway & Loretta
Comments: Thank you for this wonderful page. It brought a tear to my eye. I wish I would have went to see Bill when he was playing 20 miles from my home, I'll never forgive myself!
February 1, 2000
Name: Greg
Residence: West Virginia
Email: vfemmes@hotmail.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Willie Nelson
Favorite Group: Grateful Dead
Comments: There needs to be lyrics on here. There also needs to be more audio songs with the whole song not just 30 seconds of the song.
January 30, 2000
Name: Jackie Schmidt
Residence: Northwood, OH
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: John Duffey
Favorite Female Artist: Allison Kraus
Favorite Group: Seldom Scene
Favorite Duo: Flatt and Scruggs
Comments: Keep up the good work. We have been to many festivals in the past and love bluegrass music. We will not let this music die!
January 30, 2000
Name: Ellen K. Pomeroy
Residence: Boston, MA
Email: EKPtree@excite.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Comments: Really nice site. I love bluegrass music.
January 29, 2000
Name: Christie Sparks
Residence: Olive Hill, KY
Email: christie33@goplay.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: Conway Twitty
Favorite Female Artist: Loretta Lynn
Favorite Group: Alabama
Favorite Duo: George & Tammy Wynette
Comments: Bill will be sadly missed, but we have his music to carry his memories on. His music makes your heart come to life makes you want to get up and dance a jig. His music touches the heart in every way. I'm glad we have a chance to experience music like Bill's. It comes from the heart and that means a lot.
January 28, 2000
Name: Chris Rose
Residence: Yreka, CA
Email: cmoore@sisnet.ssku.k12.ca.us
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: Ricky Scaggs
Favorite Female Artist: Emmylou Harris
January 24, 2000
Name: TOMMY PRATER
Residence: RED JACKET
Email: tpratersr@altavista.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: GEORGE JONES
Favorite Female Artist: DOLLY PARTON
Favorite Group: LONESOME RIVER BAND
Favorite Duo: LORETTA LYNN AND ERNEST TUBB
Comments: I HAVE PLAYED MUSIC FOR MANY YEARS AND HAVE KNOWN A LOT OF THE SINGERS AND MUSICIANS. I HAVE BEEN A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN FOR OVER 20 YEARS, AND HAVE PLAYED SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE LATE LESTER FLATT AND EARL SCRUGGS, HYLO BROWN, RALPH STANLEY AND THE FATHER OF BLUEGRASS, THE LATE (BILL MONROE)IN NASHVILLE, TENESSEE. I AND THE OLD TIME BLUEGRASS BAND HAVE DONE A LOT OF THE OPENING SHOWS FOR THESE ARTISTS. [Please visit] MY HOME PAGE AT
http://treeway.com/tpratersr/
January 21, 2000
Name: Fred Shields
Residence: Linton, IN
Email: shields@viaduct.custom.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Favorite Female Artist: Allison Kraus
Favorite Group: Seldom Scene
Favorite Duo: Osborne Bros.
January 20, 2000
Name: Carolyn Chastain Lipes
Residence: Ochlocknee, GA
Email: lipes82@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I was looking for music my father liked when I was a child. I enjoy bluegrass now more than I did then.
January 18, 2000
Name: Peter Nazareth
Residence: Uganda
Email: NazarethP@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Elvis
Favorite Female Artist: Aretha
Favorite Group: Beatles
Favorite Duo: Everly Brothers
Comments: I teach a class, "Elvis as Anthology" at the University of Iowa. My first class for 2000 is tomorrow, 1/19/2000. I shall be playing Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
January 16, 2000
Name: Priscilla Shanks
Residence: Dayton, KY
Email: p.l.shanks@home.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Comments: I was just on the realjukebox looking for music and [ended up] here. Wonderful! I was saddened to have lost such a great person. Saw him in Winfield, Kansas, at the festival there. Loved every minute of it. Thanks to you for this site.
January 14, 2000
Name: Jim Hall
Residence: Henryetta, OK
Email: rangerji21lake@webtv.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
January 14, 2000
Name: James Monroe
Residence: Ohio
Email: jmjett2000@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Bill
Favorite Female Artist: Alison Krauss
Favorite Group: Union Station
Favorite Duo: Monroes
Comments: [Did] Bill Monroe have an older brother named Frank?
January 10, 2000
Name: Stan Kuykendall
Residence: Booneville, MS
Email: Stanz71_38829@yahoo.com
How do you rate my website?: Good
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Enjoyed the visit VERY much.
January 9, 2000
Name: Henry Jones
Email: hjones2888@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
Favorite Male Artist: George Jones
Favorite Female Artist: Kitty Wells
Favorite Group: Statler Bros.
Favorite Duo: Osborne Bros.
Comments: You have a great site.
January 8, 2000
Name: Dwayne Schmidt
Residence: Bismarck, ND
Email: schmidt_d@yahoo.com
How do you rate my website?: Needs some work
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Comments: It'd sure be nice to listen to the music while I answer this sheet!
FYI: There is no background music on the guestbook page, or any other pages besides the front page, because most visitors do not want it. I have found the overuse of sound files on other websites to be quite bothersome.
January 7, 2000
Name: Cletus
Residence: St. Louis, MO
Email: mulejumper@yahoo.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Ricky Skaggs
Favorite Female Artist: Iris Demitt
Favorite Group: Riders In The Sky
Favorite Duo: Flatt and Scruggs
January 7, 2000
Name: Bo Hubbs
Residence: Williamsburg, KY
Email: BOMAXDAVE@sun-spot.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Bill Monroe
Favorite Female Artist: Loretta Lynn
Favorite Group: Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys
Favorite Duo: Conway and Loretta
Comments: Bill Monroe - words cannot say what that man meant to me. He was the best and he will be missed. I miss him on the GRAND OLE OPRY - it is not the same without him.
January 5, 2000
Name: Mark Aldrich
Residence: New Paltz, NY
Email: maldr2@yahoo.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
January 4, 2000
Name: Ron
Residence: West Virginia
Email: HAZ661@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Russel Moore
Favorite Female Artist: Alison Krauss
Favorite Group: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Favorite Duo: The Louvin Brothers
Comments: Was looking for any discography and personnel list on Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys and found your site, really like it so far and also some of the great links you provided.
January 4, 2000
Name: Darryel Perry
Residence: Rio Frio, TX
Email: dperry@hctc.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Favorite Male Artist: Jim Reeves
Favorite Female Artist: Patsy Cline
Favorite Group: Alabama
Favorite Duo: Everly Brothers
January 3, 2000
Name: Roger Holbrook
Residence: Germantown, OH
Email: DHPJ7888@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Just Surfed On In
January 3, 2000
Name: Ruth Ann Mehlbrech
Residence: Sioux Falls, SD
Email: Amy2439@aol.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Favorite Male Artist: Alan Jackson
Favorite Female Artist: LeAnn Rhimes
Favorite Group: Gaither Gospel Group
Favorite Duo: Judds
Comments: This is so wonderful, the music is outstanding, it sounds so good! My husband's father played this music so my husband enjoyed it immensely also.
January 2, 2000
Name: Oscar Olson, Jr.
Residence: Gallatin, TN
Email: oscarwo@zeronet.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Link From Webpage
Comments: One time while I was leading a song in church, who came but Bill Monroe himself. He sang a couple of songs with me. He stayed in the background. That's the real Bill Monroe that many people did not know about. After services, he signed my Bible. This is what he wrote: To Oscar, I Love the Lord. Then he signed his name. I still have that Bible today. I thought you might enjoy this story. Bill was a great guy.
January 1, 2000
Name: Buddy Merriam
Residence: NY
Email: buddymerriam@earthlink.net
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Favorite Male Artist: Del
Favorite Female Artist: Hazel Dickens
Favorite Group: Del
January 1, 2000
Name: Emily Lai
Residence: Virginia
Email: lowerbamagal@hotmail.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine
Comments: Excellent site. Very informative and really enjoyed the music.
January 1, 2000
Name: ROGER MORGAN
Residence: INMAN, SC
Email: roger18@home.com
How do you rate my website?: Excellent
Found my website how?: Search Engine