   Tomorrow marks the centennial of the birth of one of the
giants of American music. Bill Monroe, who died some 15 years
ago, was called the Father of Bluegrass. But his influence
extended well beyond that to country music and even rock 'n'
roll. Bradley Klein reports on a life told through music.
BRADLEY KLEIN: William Smith Monroe was a man of few words, but
he opened up to a fellow bluegrass musician, Alice Gerrard, who
recorded him in 1969.   ALICE GERRARD: Do you feel that you were
brought up in a good way?  BILL MONROE: I was brought up the
best way that I could be brought up with what we had to do with.
I could have had a better education, and I could have had better
clothes to wear to school. I could have had a better chance, you
know? But if I'd had the best education in the world, I might
have not played music.  KLEIN: Gerrard says it was hard to get
Monroe to open up.  GERRARD: Bill, in some ways, he was very
inarticulate about his feelings. In other ways, he was very
profound about his feelings.