Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This article is a supplemental part of the Music of the United States series. Roots music: before 1940 1940s and 50s 1960s and 70s 1980s to the present African-American music Native American music Latin, Tejano, Hawaiian, Cajun, Puerto Rican and other immigrants Music of Kentucky is heavily centered around Appalachian folk music; that genre of music—and its associated descendents, especially bluegrass music in the 1940s—has largely developed in Eastern Kentucky. Bill Monroe, the most influential inventer of bluegrass, was from Kentucky. Musicians from Kentucky include Steven Curtis Chapman, J.D. Crowe, Lionel Hampton, Jackie Dee Shannon, Billy Ray Cyrus, Dwight Yoakam, Ricky Skaggs, The Judds, John Conlee and Rosemary Clooney. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.