The way I've heard it told, Bobby Hicks and Gordon Terry (or was it Charlie Cline?) were the fiddlers in the Blue Grass Boys when Bill was playing at a square dance in South Dakota sometime in the late fifties. The pair of them essentially improvised the tune on stage and gradually the band worked it up into an instrumental which they recorded in around 1958/9 (with Bill playing an F4 mandolin). The title came from Bobby Hicks' nickname for Monroe at the time.
The way I've heard it told, Bobby Hicks and Gordon Terry (or was it Charlie Cline?) were the fiddlers in the Blue Grass Boys when Bill was playing at a square dance in South Dakota sometime in the late fifties. The pair of them essentially improvised the tune on stage and gradually the band worked it up into an instrumental which they recorded in around 1958/9 (with Bill playing an F4 mandolin). The title came from Bobby Hicks' nickname for Monroe at the time.