http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/bill-monroe-mandolin-update/ News at the speed of Bluegrass! Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:47:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/bill-monroe-mandolin-update/comment-page-1/#comment-54581 Jamey Johnson Joins Willie Nelson and Kenny Chesney In Farm Aid Lineup | The 9513 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:23:34 +0000 http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/bill-monroe-mandolin-update/#comment-54581 [...] The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum may be forced to pony up $1.5 million if it wants to keep a mandolin owned by Bill Monroe, Mother Maybelle’s guitar and to other guitars owned by Johnny Cash. The instruments were donated to the museum by the late Robert W. McLean, who used investors’ money from a Ponzi scheme he was operating to purchase the instruments. When he took his life last September, he owed the investors more than $63 million. (via The Bluegrass Blog) [...] [...] The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum may be forced to pony up $1.5 million if it wants to keep a mandolin owned by Bill Monroe, Mother Maybelle’s guitar and to other guitars owned by Johnny Cash. The instruments were donated to the museum by the late Robert W. McLean, who used investors’ money from a Ponzi scheme he was operating to purchase the instruments. When he took his life last September, he owed the investors more than $63 million. (via The Bluegrass Blog) [...]

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