Come Hither to Go Yonder: Playing Bluegrass Music with Bill Monroe
by Bob Black
foreword by Neil V. Rosenberg
ISBN 0-252-07243-X
Paperback, 194 pages.
2005, published by the University of Illinois Press.
A volume in the series "Music In American Life."
Bill Monroe is so foundational to bluegrass music that the entire genre took its name from his band, the Blue Grass Boys. In Come Hither to Go Yonder, Bob Black recounts his years spent as a member of that seminal band.
While other work on Bill Monroe has been written from a historical point of view, Come Hither to Go Yonder is told from the perspective of a musician who was actually there. Filled with observations made from the unique vantage point of a man who traveled and performed extensively with the master, this book is Bob Black's personal memoir about the profound influence that Monroe exerted on the musicians who have carried on the bluegrass tradition in the wake of his 1996 death.
