Help Find a Home for Bill Monroe's Historic Tour Bus!

Help Find A Home for Bill Monroe's Historic 1956 flx Tour Bus, known as "The Bluegrass Breakdown", new rebuilt 238 Detroit Diesel, new Transmission, all new air conditioning, repainted back to Bill's two-toned blue! Makes a cozy home for the musician, I know, my whole family and I lived on the old bus for 10 months, in Nashville. TN. We have been touring in the old bus for 6 years, and we really wanted to keep the old bus.

Click Here Every musician I have met that worked with Bill Monroe, has had a interesting story either about driving the old bus, or their experience's while touring with The Father of Bluegrass! My family couldn't believe it, we bought the bus without knowing that it used to be Bill Monroe's. My family is originally from the holler's of Kentucky, and the hills of old Va. What a honor we have had.

We have always let fans on it by the hundred's. After 6 years, we have some interesting stories about our adventure's, yes we know why they call it the Bluegrass Breakdown, but everywhere we broke down, someone always showed up and helped us. Once we were broke down in Pa., and we didn't have enough money, and the owner of the garage let us go on thru, after he heard us outside pickin for tips, he said you guys are the real thing!

We recently worked a show with Vassar Clements, and he just loved the old bus, and made himself right at home on it, I couldn't write down his stories about the old bus fast enough.

I myself grew up in a family bluegrass band, my parents moved to Ohio to try and escape poverty. I now have my own family band, which we recently had to move my from Nashville, back to Ohio due to the loss of my brother and father and now my mother is on life support.

We need a new tour bus, so we can stay out on the road more. Bill's old bus is kind of scary in the snow and ice. We love giving tours, but sometimes, a hard working bluegrass band needs to rest. We just can't seem to say no, when someone wants to see the bus!

There are enough stories about this old bus, and the impact it has had on Bluegrass Music, to write a book. For more info, contact Valerie Fay or email kentuckygirlinohio@yahoo.com or valerie@onewayrider.com at http://www.onewayrider.com