“Blue Grass Stomp” is a Bill Monroe instrumental. He and his Blue Grass Boys recorded it for Columbia on 22 October 1949 at Castle Studios in Nashville. Monroe played mandolin, Chubby Wise fiddle, Rudy Lyle banjo, Mac Wiseman guitar and Jack Thompson bass. At the same session the band recorded “The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band,” with Monroe singing lead, and Columbia paired the two on a 78, Columbia 20648, released on 12 December 1949. The title is spelled as two words on that record and has since appeared as “Bluegrass Stomp” as well.
Monroe played it again with Wiseman eleven years later. On 14 August 1960 at Watermelon Park in Berryville, Virginia, he, Wiseman and the banjo player Don Reno performed it together, in a set issued in 2017. On 11 April 1963 the mandolinist Frank Wakefield and the guitarist Red Allen played it at Wakefield’s home in Bethesda, Maryland. That tape came out on Acoustic Disc in 1994 as The Kitchen Tapes. Doc Watson and David Grisman included it on Doc & Dawg (1997). Andy Statman recorded it on East Flatbush Blues (2006), playing both mandolin and clarinet.
